Afrikaners Culture Quotes & Sayings

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves. — Bernard Baruch

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic. — B.J. Novak

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end. — Gautama Buddha

but its most important characteristic was an ability to analyze the emotional beats of a movie without any of its members themselves getting emotional or defensive. — Ed Catmull

If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that eventually regret is going to make its way around. — Matthew Donnelly

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed-"
"things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess. — David Levithan

I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings. — Margaret Mead

Swimming is my passion and something that I love. — Natalie Du Toit

See you around soon?" he asks me. "Because if you're this fun with your back on a metal bar, I'd like to see you in action somewhere a little more private. — C.M. Stunich

Try to be transparent, clear and truthful. Even when it is difficult, and above all when it is difficult. — Jean-Cyril Spinetta

Then he paused, and I could tell that whatever he was going to say was really important. There was even a chance he might use more than five words to say it. "Or maybe your magic isn't destructive after all. The rain of Doritos, the bed things, this ... Maybe it's just that you create too big, you know?"
When I could find my voice, I said, "Cal, that might be the nicest thing anyone's said to me since we got here."
He twirled one of the naked roots between his finger and didn't meet my eyes. "It's true." The he glanced up and gazve one of those half smiles I was really starting to like. — Rachel Hawkins

Ever in my life have I sought thee with my songs. It was they who led me from door to door, and with them have I felt about me, searching and touching my world.
It was my songs that taught me all the lessons I ever learnt; they showed me secret paths, they brought before my sight many a star on the horizon of my heart.
They guided me all the day long to the mysteries of the country of pleasure and pain, and, at last, to what palace gate have the brought me in the evening at the end of my journey? — Rabindranath Tagore