Quotes by South African Authors - Page 9

Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Jonn Deire picked up eight yellowed and dog-eared cards from the pile, grumbling ‘garrn’ under his breath, while chewing on a frazzled looking toothpick. Skooch threw down a five of reds and said nothing. There was an impatient pause as the players waited for Beck to remember he had to play for Peeping William, who was still grumbling softly and rolling his eyes at intervals.
Christina Engela
It is a perfect deception when you can lie to yourself and believe it. You cannot love two people the same. One will always fall by the shadows…even if that one is you.
Michelle Horst
i loved you . I cared for you when no one else did and you turned around ripped it up and throw it back at my fucking face like it meant nothing to you .
Dean Eloff
Tell me a truth, Senna.""I don't know how.""Then tell me a lie.""I don't love you.""The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.
Tarryn Fisher
Religion is treasured when it brings goodness out of a person.
Gugu Mona
If love wasn't conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail.
Christina Engela
Be careful, Hally.""Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.
Athol Fugard
When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Science can be used to prove or disprove opinions, beliefs and accusations. Until any religion crosses that line, who is anyone to use their religion to judge others?
Christina Engela
Other kids are kids almost just like you - it's true.Other kids are kids too, but there's no other you, but YOU!
Christina Engela
Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I am not perfect,my roots are not watered with perfection.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
This is difficult to comprehend when one pauses to consider the character of Christ. Admittedly there have been many false caricatures of this Person, but an unbiased look at His life quickly reveals an individual of enormous compassion and incredible integrity.
W. Phillip Keller
But when I am due…Keep local the chest to lay rest my simple skins in,
Mpho Leteng
There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach out to each other. If we allow ourselves and everyone else the freedom to fully individuate as spiritual beings in human form, there will be no need for us to be forced by worldly circumstances to take hands and stand together. Our souls will automatically want to flock together, like moths to the flame of our shared Divinity, yet each with wings covered in the glimmering colors and unique patterns of our individual human expression.
Anthon St. Maarten
In our modern religion there is a reticence in speaking of our personal relationship to Jesus which often causes great loss. We forget that the majority of men are guided more by emotions than by intellect: the heart is the great power by which they are meant to be influenced and molded.
Andrew Murray
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
Desmond Tutu
Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Like time-management, change-management, doesn't really exist antmore... . Today's most valuable mindset must include the SWIFTA framework the be a change-driver.
Tony Dovale
Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong
Tony Dovale
Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.
Tony Dovale
IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now...We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style
Tony Dovale
The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!
Tony Dovale
Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution
Tony Dovale
The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction.
Tony Dovale
WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context.
Tony Dovale
Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets.
Tony Dovale
There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.
Jodi Sky Rogers
The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.
Desmond Tutu
Writing is like bungee jumping for the soul...you take a deep breath, plunge into the abyss and hope the rope tethering you to the real world doesn't snap.
Judy Croome
I waste every breathe of my life trying to be the best nobody has ever been.
Unarine Ramaru
We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.
Tarryn Fisher
Some day this war is going to end...
Richard Stanley
More than weapons, we need a leader.
Wilbur Smith
Lust shouts. Love whispers. Only the heart knows the difference.
Jan Hurst-Nicholson
It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.
Damon Galgut
Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.
Cherry Adair
Don't fight the system, mock the system
Trevor Noah
In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Beetle’s body, whether it be a ’49 split or a ’73 Jeans Bug, or an ‘03 Mexican, was originally conceived in the mid 1930’s. This is evident in it’s body styling which aside from it’s rear engine layout and absence of front radiator (or radiator!) grille, is very similar to other cars of the same period. Believe it or not, in those days streamlining was a hot new concept, kind of like how wireless networking is today with computing.The only problem was, in the beginning they didn’t seem to realize that streamlining ought to be applied sideways as well as longitudinally!
Christina Engela
Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution.
Christina Engela
We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pirates all, with what looked like necklaces of garlic around their necks. There was salt strewn on the floor in places, and it made a crunchy sound as we walked over it. Some had died clinging to crude wooden and metal crosses. Religious fanatics, I thought then – after all, isn’t it usually the worst sort of people who turn to religion when they suddenly see their end approaching and they fear some kind of reckoning coming their way?
Christina Engela
You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics - regardless of one's own religious experience - it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business.
Christina Engela
It is always wonderful to see how beautiful other people's hearts can be.
Gift Gugu Mona
We get most of our energy from complications.
Imraan Coovadia
It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all their time and energy spreading unhappiness and hatred for others - and are themselves consumed by it - are by the very definition of the term - false prophets.
Christina Engela
Whenever they are given the choice, some people choose a bath over a shower; they, too, would like to do their bit to waste water.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Those who meet objections to their forcing their religion on others with cries of 'Show respect!' clearly have no grasp of irony.
Christina Engela
He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".
Bryce Courtenay
Anything you want can come true if you cast it in the form of a "golden goal" and apply EFT-Matrix Reimprinting to get clear and activate it "in the matrix".
Caryl Westmore
I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I’ll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh.
Troye Sivan
Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.
Lauren Beukes
Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Ambition is greed without makeup.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We need an infinite wisdom so that we do not continue tackling problems that were solved centuries ago.
Gugu Mona
For Commander Ripley Jones, it was becoming more and more troublesome. It had been said that nothing is infallible, Antares apparently being the proof. After hastily recalling all crew and leaving Spacedock 7 thirty hours ago, there had been nothing but problems. Breakdowns in the sensors and telemetry, system failures of a wide variety and finally – the Last Straw: a coupling seal in the stardrive engine failed. Fortunately the cut-out worked, or the whole of engineering would’ve disappeared in a flaming ball of anti-matter. Five crewmen were seriously injured as it was. Commander Smith, the Chief Entech, had the offending unit stripped down and under repair. They were currently on conversion drive - which could only propel them at sub-light speeds – and Ripley was currently in an elevator with a very pissed Captain Falconer.
Christina Engela
Light-years away, another starship was also experiencing problems, though perhaps not as severe. The I.S.S. Antares was not a new ship either. Many older ships in the imperial space fleet reaching retirement age were being refitted with more modern equipment to extend their useful lives. Thus, technologically at least, Antares was currently one of the most advanced ships of the Imperial Space Fleet. Unfortunately, she was now also one of the most troubled. This is what the Phoenix refitting program had done to the Antares.
Christina Engela