Ngcuka Quotes & Sayings

Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

I'm certainly hoping that all the recommendations that we have heard will be implemented. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky. — Tommy Lasorda

The butter from Dorothy's' crumpet
Dripped into the bell of her trumpet.
Sweet young Edgar, eating Jell-O,
Dropped a spoonful onto is cello. — Angelica Banks

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience. — Michael Haneke

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love. — Neil Gaiman

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way. — Alexei Mordashov

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you. — Eckhart Tolle

If it is some trap, better that I die than let them hurt me more, — George R R Martin

They've participated extensively in this conference and they are doing their best to help. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy ... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing to produce the people that are not going to be the drivers of industrialisation. So that needs the discipline of both training institutions and policies that drive our people to industrialisation. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. — Criss Jami

A toast to the birthday boy!' Myrna shouted. 'Welcome to the adult world, hon. It's lonely, it's miserable, and God help you. But there are bright spots, and nights like tonight are one of them. — Natalie Standiford

Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Educate a woman, you educate a nation, — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

It was the most monotonous day of my life," he replied without a second's hesitation. Then his rigid face broke and re-formed itself into the best smile ever, so that for a moment he really did look as if he had slipped through the bars of whatever confined him. "As a matter of fact, I thought you quite excellent," he said. This time she did not object to his choice of adjective. "Will you crash the car now, please, Jose? This will do me fine. I'll die here." And before he could stop her, she had grabbed his hand and kissed him hard on the knuckle of his thumb. — John Le Carre

Back in July 2003, he'd written them a long essay on the causes and consequences of what he took to be a likely housing crash: "Alan Greenspan assures us that home prices are not prone to bubbles - or major deflations - on any national scale," he'd said. "This is ridiculous, of course ... . In 1933, during the fourth year of the Great Depression, the United States found itself in the midst of a housing crisis that put housing starts at 10% of the level of 1925. Roughly half of all mortgage debt was in default. During the 1930s, housing prices collapsed nationwide by roughly 80%. — Michael Lewis

But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working. — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

He'd already planned on checking out the house for her, but what he hadn't planned on was her hooking her hand around the back of his belt and urging him forward like a human shield. Now, there were times in Dylan's life when he hadn't minded women using his body, but they'd always been naked a the time. He didn't know how he felt about being used as a target so Hope could run like hell if anything hit him first.
-Dylan — Rachel Gibson

By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the great stories of 19th-century science, but to bring them vividly to life. — Tom Standage