Achmat Kathrada Quotes & Sayings

If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too. — Patrick Wilson

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars. — Heraclitus

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement. — Aberjhani

Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about. — Stephen Richards

Don't say Dick Gansey, man. Do not say it. He is never going to be with you. And don't me tell you don't swing that way, man. I'm in your head."
"That's not what Gansey is to me," Ronan said.
"You didn't say you don't swing that way."
Ronan was silent. Thunder growled under his feet. "No, I didn't. — Maggie Stiefvater

He felt his arms ache and, looking down, saw that the girl had stopped struggling. There came that point, that sudden, blissful point, when it was useless to go on living, and when the mind and body came to accept that such was the case. That was a beautiful, peaceful moment, the most relaxed moment of one's life. — Ian Rankin

Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort
to obliterate complacency
and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it. — James C. Collins

He hears men's voices, shouts, so evil and grim he hears their names: Tin Tin, Fun Boy, T-Bird, Top Dollar and Tom Tom. The sounds sink into his heart like ice and brun in his head with a heat so intense it glows white. — James O'Barr

Wait, was that Mal Ericson from Stage Dive?
Fuck a duck, it was. — Kylie Scott