Old Afrikaans Quotes & Sayings

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world. — Julie Walters

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues. — Rumi

I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary. — Louis De Montfort

Night breeds its own sort of anticipation. — Jacqueline Carey

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up — Ani DiFranco

I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces. — J.B. Priestley

As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself. — Chogyam Trungpa

Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way. — Lara Logan

Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it. — Katherine Anne Porter

To paraphrase an old Afrikaans idiom; it is necessary to eat a bag of salt with these people to realise the extent of their misery and suffering within touching distance of one of the wealthiest little communities to be found on any continent. For those who wish to follow in my footsteps, it's all there for the taking but it requires moments of considerable insight, humility and understanding of the frailties of human nature. Some would call it compassion. — Al J. Venter