Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr Quotes & Sayings

It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea. — Lemony Snicket

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen. — Russell Simmons

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man. — William Godwin

It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets. — Paul Horowitz

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions. — Cornel West

There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water. — T. S. Eliot

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart. — Gustave Flaubert

He remains everlastingly the same. There are no furrows on his eternal brow. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third. — Rio Ferdinand

The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers. — John Gardner

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. — D.H. Lawrence

Presumably, the bells of the Church of the Ascension had been reclaimed by the Bolsheviks for the manufacture of artillery, thus returning them to the realm from whence they came. Though for all the Count knew, the cannons that had been salvaged from Napoleon's retreat to make the Ascension's bells had been forged by the French from the bells at La Rochelle; which in turn had been forged from British blunderbusses seized in the Thirty Years War. From bells to cannons and back again, from now until the end of time. — Amor Towles

Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs. — Neale Donald Walsch