Top 1034 Quotes & Sayings by South African Authors - Page 12

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

Form is difficult. You can't predict form, it is up and down for any player.

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

One of the biggest things I've worked on is how to play my best tennis every single time I walk on to the court.

All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

Marxism, communism, socialism - the ideologies - did not have the automatic answers to the problem of the relations between the lighter and darker races of mankind. They did not even have an answer to anti-Semitism.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.

With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike.

What I try to do with the accent of any character I play is not necessarily to do something that's generic - an Indian accent and that's how it sounds, for example. I think the accent needs to sound authentic on this person.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

The first dance we did for 'Ain't Misbehavin' was five minutes and I was like, 'What? Five minutes!'

People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

What is so wonderful about Feedie is that its not limited by any geographical boundaries.

Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.

I feel so comfortable in an acting role, you know, as an actor. Maybe it's because I came into it late. If anything, I've felt frustrated that I can't carry a film because everything since 'District 9' has been supporting roles.

One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

The pace is different on a film set. It's slightly slower, allowing for a little more wiggle room. Sometimes there is a bit more room to explore and work on the floor. On a TV set, you really have to be ultra-prepared and ready to deliver because time is so tight. Not that you don't have to be prepared for film.

The Kimberley Process is not a perfect construct, and it is necessary now to re-double efforts to address its remaining shortcomings and strengthen its provisions.

I know how I look like. I know how I sound. I know how I walk. I'm just gonna be me. I do me, and you do you.

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.

Victoria's Secret is like a big family.

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

Even though I'm 32, I feel like I'm playing my best-ever tennis and like the best years are ahead of me.

We need to remind ourselves of the kind of society of which we have dreamed for so long, for which we have fought, and for which so many lost their lives.

One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett.

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

They've participated extensively in this conference and they are doing their best to help.

It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Pakistan is a great team to be a part of and to see the emergence of young players is exciting.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself.

Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

I still enjoy what I'm doing, which is building businesses. I don't play golf. I don't have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.

As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

Having spent all that time getting away from South Africa, running away from the army, I wanted very much to believe that America and England were actually as free as they were meant to be, not slipping rapidly into becoming police states like the one I'd just left.

When I started out, it was around the whole 9/11 - Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor, and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.

Air is traditionally 'thin,' but the more we learn about our atmosphere, the more substantial it becomes. In some places it is so filled with inorganic flotsam that it is almost thick enough to plough; in others, it has become so primed with the by-products of life that it comes close to being a living tissue in its own right.

I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.

It's never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses.

I want to be seen as a classic model.