Nielen Marais Quotes & Sayings

If you're screwing up and people aren't saying anything, that means they have given up. — Jim Graham

Unsurprisingly, planning was most admired and advocated at the political extremes. — Tony Judt

Life sucks, and I am pretty sure Fate hates me. But there is nothing I can do about any of that. — John Goode

The newcomer struck him as an enterprising sort of man. The kind that would slit your throat for a box of tissues in your bag while you slept. — Ilona Andrews

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket? — Harbhajan Singh

Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you
obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle. — Epictetus

Just as one generation could prevent the very existence of the next generation, by all entering a monastery or jumping into the sea, so one set of thinkers can in some degree prevent further thinking by teaching the next generation that there is no validity in any human thought — G.K. Chesterton