Hierdie Ding Quotes & Sayings

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible. — Helen Thomas

But my animals are real animals, and they behave as animals usually do. It's really the humans who do strange things. Animals are predictable. Humans, never. — Ruskin Bond

In most collectivist cultures, direct confrontation of another person is considered rude and undesirable. The word no is seldom used, because saying "no" is a confrontation; "you may be right" and "we will think about it" are examples of polite ways of turning down a request. In the same vein, the word yes should not necessarily be inferred as an approval, since it is used to maintain the line of communication: "yes, I heard you" is the meaning it has in Japan. — Geert Hofstede

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form. — Peter Weir

Your divine sagacity is your life's status symbol. — Ogwo David Emenike

It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam ... Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart. — Desmond Tutu

The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis. — Ian McEwan

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new. — Thomas A. Edison

If you allow mosquitoes to disturb your sound sleep, you shall never be able to wake up healthy and sound enough to kill an Elephant — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah