Nambitha Mpumlwana Quotes & Sayings

Faces and faces, served out like soup-plates by scullions; coarse, greedy, casual; looking in at shopwindows with pendent parcels; ogling, brushing, destroying everything, leaving even our love impure, touched now by their dirty fingers. — Virginia Woolf

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Hooper ladled chum, which sounded to Brody, every time it hit the water, like diarrhea. — Peter Benchley

He stood frozen, staring at me as if he didn't know how to do anything else. I couldn't focus; it was like all the world's blue had originated from his eyes. It was all there, the color of midnight, the sky, the ocean, and blue raspberry lollipops. Why had I spent so much time pretending they weren't remarkable? — Rose Fall

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough — Richard M. DeVos

Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether. — Alan Huffman

Nothing like a soulful glance under the noses of the saints! — Victor Hugo

A marriage is sensitive, fragile and crucial. Once you mess up with how you handle it, it will shatter — Diyar Harraz

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world ... .because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community. — Tony Benn

Work hard. Play hard. Be nice! — Katherine King

Some people know of no other way to interface with others except through their created chaos. — Bryant McGill

I didn't train all that time just to come here and get it over with as fast as I can — John Bingham

a nutshell, the choice is between going through this life awake or in a kind of stupor. — Amos Oz

If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. Hominids are very rare in the landscape, and it's very rare to find them. — Donald Johanson

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. — Charles Caleb Colton