Makanyaneng Quotes & Sayings

Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize. — Gene Wolfe

Then you will call, and the Eternal will answer; you will cry for help, and [God] will say: Here am I. If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. — Maurice D Harris

Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all. — John Boyega

I'm drunk-nonsensical tired out. — Robert Frost

[H]uman beings ... make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts ... the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves. — Takeru Kobayashi

I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues. Human Rights Watch probably has a list of things they think we should be doing as a government. — Barack Obama

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism. — Robert D. Kaplan

Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost. — Francis Atterbury

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury. — Ben Bradlee

Then I added a dash of salt, which counteracts the natural bitterness of coffee, — Linda Howard

I have never met a person who possessed a privilege who did not exercise that privilege to the fullest extent that they possibly could. — Robert Jackson Bennett