Leon Botha Quotes & Sayings

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something. — Leo Tolstoy

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. — Tom Allen

The magical embroidery of your destiny will not unfold if you do not plunge into the unknown. — Lyna Jones

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender. — Rick Pitino

The longer we stayed together, the longer our list of cuts and bruises grew - both inside and out. — Leylah Attar

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. — Ty Cobb

This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York. — Malachy McCourt

None but God would have ever thought of justifying such a man as Saul the persecutor; but the Lord God is glorious in grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Even in what seem like "unquantifiable" areas like political change and disaster prevention, we can still think rigorously, in an evidence-based manner, about how good those activities are. We just need to assess the chances of success and how good success would be if it happened. This, of course, is very difficult to do, but we will make better decisions if we at least try to make these assessments rather than simply throwing up our hands and randomly choosing an activity to pursue, or worse, not choosing any altruistic activity at all. — William MacAskill

I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be. — John Henry Mackay

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor. — Gina Gershon

What doesn't KILL me makes me stronger ... Except for the extinction of COFFEE ... that might kill me. — Tanya Masse

I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue. — Tom Landry

The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt