Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 7

Love is the master key that opens every blessings door.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love has no spear but conquers hearts.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you fall in love, make sure your landing is soft.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not the size of the ring, but the size of the love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You only need to steal a woman's heart if she won't give it to you willingly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is blind, and therefore not responsible for whoever she bumps into.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If your love for your wife can be measured, it is not big enough.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I have never met anyone who gave back a heart they stole.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Running away from someone you love is a race you will never win.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is never a crime to steal the heart of someone you love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Eternity is a long time, but only a day when you are in love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the only tyrant whose reign is sweet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a man does not treat you like a princess during courtship, he will not treat you like a queen during marriage.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love makes the world go round, but sometimes you spin so much you end up dizzy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Strength conquers some, might conquers many, power conquers numerous, but love conquers all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I've thought about that often since. I mean, about the word nice. Perhaps I mean good. Of course they mean nothing, when you start to think about them. A good man, one says; a good woman; a nice man, a nice woman. Only in talk of course, these are not words you'd use in a novel. I'd be careful not to use them.Yet of that group, I will say simply, without further analysis, that George was a good person, and that Willi was not. That Maryrose and Jimmy and Ted and Johnnie the pianist were good people, and that Paul and Stanley Lett were not. And furthermore, I'd bet that ten people picked at random off the street to meet them, or invited to sit in that party under the eucalyptus trees that night, would instantly agree with this classification-would, if I used the word good, simply like that, know what I meant.And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the things that obsess me. I mean, of course, this question of 'personality.' Heaven knows we are never allowed to forget that the 'personality' doesn't exist any more. It's the theme of half the novels written, the theme of the sociologists and all the other -ologists. We're told so often that human personality has disintegrated into nothing under pressure of all our knowledge that I've even been believing it. Yet when I look back to that group under the trees, and re-create them in my memory,suddenly I know it's nonsense. Suppose I were to meet Maryrose now, all these years later,she'd make some gesture, or turn her eyes in such a way, and there she'd be, Maryrose, and indestructible. Or suppose she 'broke down,' or became mad. She would break down into her components, and the gesture, the movement of the eyes would remain, even though some connection had gone. And so all this talk, this antihumanist bullying, about the evaporation of the personality becomes meaningless for me at that point when I manufacture enough emotional energy inside myself to create in memory some human being I've known. I sit down, and remember the smell of the dust and the moonlight, and see Ted handing a glass of wine to George, and George's over-grateful response to the gesture. Or I see, as in a slow-motion film, Maryrose turn her head, with her terrifyingly patient smile... I've written the word film. Yes. The moments I remember all have the absolute assurance of a smile, a look, a gesture, in a painting or a film. Am I saying then that the certainty I'm clinging to belongs to the visual arts, and not to the novel, not to the novel at all, which has been claimed by the disintegration and the collapse? What business has a novelist to cling to the memory of a smile or a look, knowing I so well the complexities behind them? Yet if I did not, I'd never be able to set a word down on paper; just as I used to keep myself from going crazy in this cold northern city by deliberately making myself remember the quality of hot sunlight on my skin.And so I'll write again that George was a good man.
Doris Lessing
There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars have bad drivers. A person's gearbox revealed everything that you could want to know about that person, thought Mr J.L.B. Matekoni.
Alexander McCall Smith
...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.
Alexander McCall Smith
Of course, the abolition of Hell meant that such thoughts were now the merest fantasy. Isobel was agnostic as to what, if anything, lay in store for us after this life; that there was a world of spirit seemed to her to be a possibility that we should not exclude. Consciousness was an elusive entity about which we knew very little, other than that it came into existence when certain conditions were present- a sufficient mass of brain cells operating in a particular way. But could we really say much more than that about where it was located & whether it could survive in other conditions? The fact that a plant grew in one place did not mean that it could not grow in another. And if something lay behind this consciousness, orchestrated it & and the conditions that produced it, then why should we not call this something God?
Alexander McCall Smith
Very..." She left the word hanging. Very unfinished, thought Isabel. The woman finished her sentence. "Very beautiful." Oh, really! thought Isabel. The verdict from others was much the same. Oh well, thought Isabel. Perhaps I'm not sufficiently used to the language he's using. Music is not an international language, she thought, no matter how frequently that claim is made; some words of the language may be the same, but not all, and one needs to know the rules to understand what is being said. Perhaps I just don't understand the conventions by which Nick Smart is communicating with his audience.
Alexander McCall Smith
Most problems can be effectively dealt with before they are in full swing.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Problems come few and far between in the life of a proactive person.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Dream all you can, live all you say, work all you must.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.
Alexander McCall Smith
Who's to say that once I run, I'll find that isn't enough? Who's to say I won't end up feeling exactly the way I do right now-not safe, but stifled? Maybe I'll want to run again, and again, and eventually I'll end up back on those old tracks, because there's nowhere left to go. Maybe. Maybe not. You have to take the risk, don't you
Paula Hawkins
I was back in disgust. I stood in the centre of the big room, naked, letting the heat strike me from the three points of heat, and I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never really understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh. If this goes, then the conviction of life goes too. But I could feel none of this. The texture of the carpet was abhorrent to me, a dead processed thing; my body was a thin, meagre, spiky sort of vegetable, like an unsunned plant; and when I touched the hair on my head it was dead. I felt the floor bulge up under me. The walls were losing their density. I knew I was moving down into a new dimension, further away from sanity than I had ever been. I knew I had to get to the bed fast. I could not walk, so I let myself down on my hands and knees and crawled to the bed and lay on it, covering myself.
Doris Lessing
Enmity dies when friendship is born.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Bruises from a friend are better than kisses from an enemy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your greatest friendships are those that survive the greatest storms.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One good friend is better than a thousand questionable ones.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be the friend you wish to have.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Building bridges requires greater effort than building walls.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Debate, but do not argue.Challenge, but do not force your opinions.To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A loyal pet is better than a faithless friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
God is always the first one there when we fall,but most of us don’t look up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If we take care of our neighbors,our neighbors will take care of us.If we take care of our friends,our friends will take care of us.If we take care of our family,our family will take care of us.If we take care of others,our God will take care of us.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Teachers are in your life to guide you.Friends are in your life to support you.Parents are in your life to bless you.Enemies are in your life to strengthen you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Those who put you in difficult times are enemies.Those who forsook you in difficult times are acquaintances.Those who stood by you in difficult times are friends.Those who fought for you in difficult times are family.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Those who know you see your tears even in the rain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
it is the deep-black-sky quiet time of night, which is the halfway time between the sun setting and the sun rising when even the night animals are quiet—as if they, like day animals, take a break in the middle of their work to rest.
Alexandra Fuller
It was the time of night that precedes dawn and is without perspective or reason. It was the hour when regret and fear overwhelm hope and courage and when all that is ugly in us is magnified and when we are most panic-stricken by what we have lost, and what we have almost lost, and what we fear we might lose.
Alexandra Fuller
The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular and the pictures on the wall more one-dimensional. She remembered somebody saying that at night we are all strangers, even to ourselves, and this struck her as being true.
Alexander McCall Smith
I'm not afraid of heights,I actually want to go higher.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.
Alexander McCall Smith
Love boldly.Love boundlessly.Love benevolently.Love blessedly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Kindness is a rose,love is a bundle.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who has great love has great power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
Doris Lessing
It’s too risky,” said doubters.“It’s too difficult,” said scoffers.“It’s pointless,” said mockers.“It’s impossible,” said haters.“It’s already done,” said believers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you invest in your critics more than you invest in your dreams, you have successfully invested in your failure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The distance between your dreams and reality is faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Where others only see bricks,train your eyes to see a palace.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Go after your dreams confidently.Go after your aspirations positively.Go after your goals expectantly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The darker it gets, the brighter your dreams shine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Aim for the stars, and afterward, pass them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't have to reach for the stars if you are already shining like one.
Matshona Dhliwayo