Top 1034 Quotes & Sayings by South African Authors - Page 2

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

Tanzanians are some of the friendliest you'll ever meet, insisting on a welcoming smile and wave as they pass you on the streets, exclaiming 'Jambo!'

If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process.

I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.

The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

I am proud to be an African.

Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.

I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

I'm high maintenance, but I'm worth it.

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

There have been so many great moments, and I feel so blessed every day.

You drive for show but putt for dough.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

All of my businesses are profitable.

But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working.

After PayPal, I never thought I would get interested in payments again. But bitcoin is fulfilling PayPal's original vision to create 'the new world currency.'

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

At the heart of the best documentaries, there is a journey of inquiry - someone who travels out into the world, comes back with a story, and who then finds meaning in it, and intrigue; someone who tells you about something you never quite knew before, or in a way you hadn't quite thought about.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.

The more I practice the luckier I get.

Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.

Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

I believe now that I've cemented my spot as the best swimmer in the world, and I can't describe how proud that makes me. I just want to keep working hard and hopefully just inspire more youngsters to keep swimming and encourage South Africans to become a winning nation.

The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.

As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.

I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.