Quotes by South African Authors - Page 4

Nothing unusual was noted during the voyage, in fact everything ran smoothly until Security alerted Biscay about the stiff in cabin 407. Nobody heard or saw anything suspicious. None of the passengers were missing or acting suspiciously. No airlock doors were opened or any transports allowed since their last stop four days prior. There were no notorious names on the passenger list, nor any unsavory persons among the ranks of his crew. In fact, the ship’s commander had never even seen a dead body in real – um, life before. And yet, almost magically, there it was.
Christina Engela
Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Love is being able to carry each others circumstances and making it your own, even though you didn't play a role in its foundation.
Unarine Ramaru
Love is immune to whatever circumstance.
Unarine Ramaru
There is difference when someone says 'Love You' and when they 'I Love You'. The word 'I' saws the worthiness and devotion in what you are saying.
Unarine Ramaru
You make my heart shake bend and break
Troye Sivan
And my hopes they are high I must keep them small
Troye Sivan
Which one of us, went and fucked up?
Troye Sivan
Some women are good-looking … until they change their hairstyle.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.
Lauren Beukes
Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah’k’hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example.
Christina Engela
When you discipline a child, you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood.
Gift Gugu Mona
I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you," she said, "but you forget the reason I ride you so hard and give you so much shit is because I love you. Everything I have ever done I've done from a place of love. If I don't punish you, the world will punish you even worse. The world doesn't love you. If the police get you, the police don't love you. When I beat you, I'm trying to save you. When they beat you, they're trying to kill you.
Trevor Noah
My child has to be an artist,because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I told you before, I don’t want out of this marriage. And if you give me nothing but daughters for the next twenty years, I would consider myself blessed.
Natasha Anders
When a woman births, not only is a baby being born but so is a mother. How we treat her will affect how she feels about herself as a mother and as a parent.Be gentle. Be kind. Listen.
Ruth Ehrhardt
The baby, when he or she is ready to be born, will send a message that tells the mother’s body that it is ready. The mother’s body can then begin labour by slowly releasing oxytocin, the hormone of love. The mother and baby work together to bring the baby into the world.
Ruth Ehrhardt
There comes a time in your life where youhave to live without the wo/man of yourdreams and have to live with the one in your reality.That is called maturity
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of … except self?
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Arrogance combined with stubbornness is a ticking bomb.
Unarine Ramaru
I live wherever you are cos honestly there's no better place to call home.
Nomzamo Nhlumayo
Creating is the closest thing to being immortal.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden? Who would want to give up an unblemished state of immortality for the insipid apple?
Achmat Dangor
Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.
Christina Engela
How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard to achieve after all. Why then does he persist in inscribing marks on paper, in the faint hope that people not yet born will take the trouble to decipher them?
J.M. Coetzee
You find your greatest joy the moment when you discover your purpose in life.
Gift Gugu Mona
The streets are a poor kid’s PlayStation™
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An afro is a poor man’s haircut.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Visionaries see beyond the boundaries of an eyesight.
Gift Gugu Mona
Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
How did I find out? I was deceiving him.
Nadine Gordimer
Maybe I don't know everything that happened to you over the years, but every time you open your mouth and something self-deprecating falls out, it's like I'm hearing someone else's voice coming out of you.(...)Every time you say something like that, something that puts you down, you're letting someone else's opinion take control of you.
V.L. Dreyer
Listening has certainly become a scarce skill, therefore we need ways to enhance this skill especially for the next generation.
Gugu Mona
To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sun glasses are the unofficial celebrities’ uniform.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I want her to engulf me in her blaze & scorch me until my darkness lies in ashes.
Dani René
Achieving success is your ability to eliminate the weakness and biases that are inherent within yourself
Julian Pencilliah
He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to be a wonderful day for Mykl d’Angelo, captain and owner of the ‘tramp’ freighter Pegasus. As wonderful days went on his personal scale, this one was rated one of the best.
Christina Engela
Same time as every day, Fyl..." she fussed, the rest of the bridge crew seeming to hold their breaths. "TWELVE THIRTY!" came the chorus. The next hour dragged by, in about the same way as the hour before that. At twelve twenty-five, Commander Ortez found himself stepping out of an elevator into an equally mundane grey steel corridor on his way to the mess hall. Turning a corner, he met with a stream of crewmen milling around between shifts. Some off-duty personnel were lounging around in civvies, which consisted mostly of re-revamped 60's hippy fashions. Of all the places on the ship, the mess was the most spacious, (i.e.: it was a big mess.) The command officer’s balcony overhung the rest of the crew dining area. Ortez sat at his usual place, wincing as he remembered to get someone to fix the springs in his chair. An ensign, 3rd class dressed in chef’s white, served him with a plate of what either ended up feeding the chefs latest pet - or strangling it. Marnetti, Barnum and the sciences officer Commander Jaris Skotchdopole filed in, not necessarily in that order, and found seats. After a few bites, Marnetti -- who was the first officer and navigator, put up a hand and signalled a waiter. The lad approached fearfully, appreciating the highlight of his day.
Christina Engela
On any given day, Ossifar Distana carried around 5000 passengers, the actual figure varying slightly depending on where she was on the vast elliptical cruise that took her around the Terran Empire. When she entered the system she carried 4984 passengers, 500 crew, one dead body and one very puzzled Captain.
Christina Engela
The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil come voting day, wanted to be fair and just – or at least appear that way. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there was little love lost between Imperial troops and the locals who viewed each other with little short of open hostility, and often through the sighting devices attached to weaponry of various diverse descriptions.
Christina Engela
Nobody seems to know which came first; egg or chicken – except of course for agents of the Time Saving Agency – who can find out anything about, well – anything. The only trouble is, they aren’t talking – however, you can take it from me – they know. The answer to these and other puzzles are kept safe and secure behind fire-walls and thick security doors secured with, er – time-locks, where one could possibly find answers to many other troubling questions, and not all of them necessarily relating to chickens.
Christina Engela
Hypocrisy is when you get mad at a friend for telling their other friend a secret that your other friend told you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.
J.M. Coetzee
What we can imagine we can make real
Nadine May
Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries on Gorda. All told, that would take care of their traveling arrangements for the next year or so, pretty much.
Christina Engela
Human rights is a numbers game. Who is going to care if only 20 people pitch for a protest?
Christina Engela
Inspiration does not linger in one place over time, therefore human effort shouldn't be scaled on earlier attempt.
Unarine Ramaru
Look forward to failure. Fail quickly. If it does not start with Failure it is probably not meant to be
David Sikhosana
You need to be able to think Independently.
David Sikhosana
Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana