Lesedi Matsunyane Quotes & Sayings

A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative, to be loving, to be blissful, without comparing yourself to others. It will not teach you that you can be happy only when you are the first - that is sheer nonsense. You can't be happy just by being first, and in trying to be first you go through such misery that by the time you become the first you are habituated to misery. — Anonymous

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. — Kurt Vonnegut

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. — George Orwell

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. — Wilhelm Steinitz

South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is. — Kim Hyesoon

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure. — Corey Hart

Have more than thou showest, speak less than though knowest, lend less than thou owest, ride more than though goest, learn more than thou trowest, set less than thou throwest. — William Shakespeare

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling." — Avey Tare

I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism. — Charles Busch

A sullied green "S" stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland. — Katherine McIntyre

Is all niceness then or is all buggery? How can a man be forty-five years old and still not know whether all is niceness or buggery? How does one know for sure? — Walker Percy

For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster ... The Lord has warned us of famines, but the righteous will have listened to the prophets and stored at least one year's supply of survival food ... — Ezra Taft Benson

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain. — Kit Bond