Top 1034 Quotes & Sayings by South African Authors - Page 11

This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.

The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.

I realized that women that stand together and take hands can be unbreakable.

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.

I think there's a lot of crazy stuff on the Internet. You read stuff that is wild speculation, and there's an element of it that makes me not trust it because there's this undercurrent of insanity to it sometimes.

Growing up in a system that tells you just because of your skin colour you are not good enough - you learn at a very young age to toughen up.

After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

Tesla Motor's original business plan had a copy of a letter from Nikola Tesla from the late 19th century talking about the challenges inherent in gasoline engines and the promise of the electric engine.

What I want to say is that nobody is unbeatable. There's a kid out there who probably wants to beat me. I train hard and try to be the best that I can be, but I don't disrespect my opponents. I am not disillusioned, either.

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

And when I won Miss Universe, I got a global platform, which gave me a louder voice to be able to reach more women from every corner of the world. No matter where we live, our circumstances or how we grew up, we want to feel love, we want to feel cared for, and we want to feel powerful.

I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved.

Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

I gave up soccer. But I don't think I can ever stop running.

The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

Whenever I have a little time off, I try to go back to my farm in South Africa. I'll spend time with my family and hunt antelope, kudu and springbok. During a 2010 hunting trip, I tore some ligaments in my ankle when I stepped in a hole.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?

What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.

Growing up at school I played a lot of fly-half and a lot of scrum-half, I thought I had a good boot but never really used it as much as I do now.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.

When I am off the field, I am the calm, very quiet kind of easy-sailing ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in.

I can make a beginner, anyone with no dance experience, look amazing if we put in the hours.

I like to see a tidy shop, and I want to see my investments well managed.

Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.

I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

I like the course, the history - everything about St. Andrews.

I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They are all supposed to help you, but I like to stay in bed, where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini.

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

To clean your face thoroughly, even do a scrub, and let it sit and make sure your pores are clean before you go to club. If it sits on your face overnight, dirt just builds up. Even just laying there the whole night, stuff gets on your face, so anything else there is just really not good.

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

Nobody talks about cancer until they have to, and then, it's really all you can talk about.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what's available.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.