Quotes by South African Authors - Page 6

Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world "I'm not going to give up.
Shirley Corder
Not many Ruminarii warships had ever been captured intact by any enemy, and so for those the Ruminarii “invited” aboard their vessels, this was usually a one-way sight-seeing trip. For those who really want to know, Ruminarii Hammerheads have an extensive corridor network, the interior walls are heavily decorated, savagely militaristic and inevitably, close together. He strode down one. Lesser ranks seeing him, fell to the deck and groveled like their fingernails depended on it. There was a chorus of shrieks and whimpers as he passed. When he arrived on the bridge, everyone was face down on the deck, each endeavoring to grovel lower than the next. Nothing like discipline to keep the crew in its place.
Christina Engela
A praiseworthy King is he who doesn't seek the most expensive throne, rather the most effective leadership style.
Gugu Mona
In a Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace, people are promoted based upon skillset, AND more importantly MINDSET
Tony Dovale
Discovering more joy does not, save us from th inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
Desmond Tutu
Demographics is destiny
Arthur Kemp
We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
Desmond Tutu
He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Nelson Mandela
Never be fooled that you are not number one, they got it wrong, because you beat a bunch of sperms to be alive.
Unarine Ramaru
To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The correspondence testifies to the frailty of human longings, to the process of how something precious can turn fatal, a reality become illusion. We are reminded that love should be cherished when it comes your way, because no matter in what form it arrives, carrying no matter what baggage in its fragile beautiful hands, you should welcome it and protect it from the harshness of this world.
Karina Szczurek
Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here’s the deal, here’s the wonderful thing, it gets done along the way as you do discipleship. Great commission is just about going to disciple the nations and you know what happens... as you disciple them evangelism takes place, because it’s done in the context of discipleship.Here’s the issue: We have to reframe evangelism within the context of discipleship
Alan Hirsch
Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without confirmation I could sense that something had gone terribly wrong.
Phindiwe Nkosi
Some people think everyone should be the same as them:Look, dress, sound and act just like them.
Christina Engela
Fear brings your mind to the edge of insanity, where everything is so frighteningly crystal clear you can take in every little thing that’s happening around you. Your body runs purely on adrenaline, with not a drop of blood pumping through your veins.
Michelle Horst
If men could become pregnant - or be legally raped, or understand the unsubtle differences between 'yes' and 'no', i am certain you would soon see them change their tune about abortion and the treatment and trivialization of the suffering of rape victims.
Christina Engela
One bright sunny day at a successful Literary Agency…Literary Agent: “So, Tina – we asked you to try and write a children’s story…”Tina: “Uh-huh.
Christina Engela
Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Growing up is childish.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
But it’s a hundred and twelve years old!” He protested.“She still works pretty good.” Deire maintained. “Stardrive gets a mite twitchy at warp 4, but that’s just a dodgy plasma injector.
Christina Engela
Even to your old age and grey hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have loved you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you[.]
Tarryn Fisher
Fear is an abortion of good thoughts
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Failure for one is a source of creativity, build on it and a different story will puzzle itself.
Unarine Ramaru
Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.
Desmond Tutu
Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.
Yvette Christiansë
Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
It’s only when we are able to exceed our rigid interpretations, and we start defining love in it’s totality, that we realize that love is everywhere
Julian Pencilliah
Since we aim for a healthy life for all, we should teach young girls that their worth can't be validated by dating older rich men, because that is risky for their health. Until we change certain perceptions in society, we will keep fighting the same battles.
Gift Gugu Mona
It is the task of San shamans to activate their supernatural potency, to cause it to ‘boil’ up their spines until it explodes in their heads and takes them off to the spirit realms – that is, they enter a state of trance at the far end of the intensified trajectory.
James David Lewis-Williams
Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.
Unarine Ramaru
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
Everything's better with zombies - NOT
Lily Herne
Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! It calls out to love in an attempt to save myself. I don’t want to be one of those people who live their lives with boils, septic wounds and broken bones bleeding inside.
Phindiwe Nkosi
I will once again keep my eyes open to the changes so that I won't miss even a single spec of chance. Life is possible, believe it, LIFE'S POSSIBLE!
Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk
Behind these eyesthere is a girl trapped withinher pain – a girl feeling all the emotionsof anger and sadness.She’s fighting for a way out.” (In her eyes, p. 39)
Chimnese Davids
To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.
Desmond Tutu
Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.
Wilbur Smith
Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.
Tony Dovale
I want her to engulf me in her blaze & scorch me until my darkness lies in ashes.
Dani René
A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To masturbate is to imagine: physically.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Anyone can be rich and not everyone can be successful.
Unarine Ramaru
If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy.
Unarine Ramaru
Not being treated as equal IS oppression
Christina Engela
The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…
James David Lewis-Williams
Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
Nelson Mandela
You can never escape God's Grace because as you run from it, you run to it.
Gift Gugu Mona
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent.
Christina Engela