Nkosi Sikeleli Quotes & Sayings

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars. — James Russell Lowell

The ten-o' clock breakfasters began to appear: nervous, little men, morose, preoccupied, who wiped their plates with crusts of bread; rude, massive women who, like primitive idols dug out of the soil, had grown rotten in the years; flowery dandies with repulsive faces, reminding him uncomfortably of illustrations in medical tracts. — Henry Miller

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sometimes, girls, you have to hit your lowest low just before you hit your highest high. It makes you appreciate the good things so much more. — David Estes

Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?" — Michael O'Leary

Friends are not made, but recognized. — Carl Rakosi

They sang that song which distills all the suffering and the hope of Africa; that song which had inspired and comforted so many, "Nkosi Sikeleli Afrika," God Bless Africa, give her life, watch over her children. — Alexander McCall Smith

We've come a long way since Herschel's experiments with rays that were "unfit for vision," empowering us to explore the universe for what it is, rather than for what it seems to be. Herschel would be proud. We achieved true cosmic vision only after seeing the unseeable: a dazzlingly rich collection of objects and phenomena across space and across time that we may now dream of in our philosophy. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson