Nkele Motsomi Quotes & Sayings

Sexual pessimism: The equation of sexual love outside the prerequisites of reproduction with death. — Lawrence Osborne

You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you. — Anna Akhmatova

I'll have these internal moments where I'm empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I'm like, "How can I see the best in this situation?" Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity. — Zooey Deschanel

I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.' — Johnny Depp

Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me ... in every way that a person can be saved — James Cameron

A great singer is he who sings our silences — Kahlil Gibran

As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose. — Steve Martin

Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go. — John Denver

If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it. — Oswald Boelcke

Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more. — Brian O'Driscoll

You don't see the forest for the trees. — Karen Marie Moning

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory ... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles. — Alfred Adler

A whole castle full of damsels intent upon securing a husband?" Wesley mimicked in surprise. "Why, of course. What reasonable man would not be thrilled with such a prospect?"

-Wesley — Katharine Ashe

This is the root of all catastrophe in the family: no one ever knows when to call it a day. — Emma Brockes

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness. — Cornel West