Sibongiseni Phakathi Quotes & Sayings

Poverty in girls is not attractive unless combined with sweet sluttishness, stupidity. — Alice Munro

This view of farming has been dominant now for a generation, and so it is not too soon to ask: How well does it work? We must answer that it works as any industrial machine works: very "efficiently" according to the terms of an extremely specialized accounting. That is to say that it apparently makes it possible for about 4 percent of the population to "feed" the rest. — Wendell Berry

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

They must accept responsibility, recognizing that responsibility is not the same as culpability. — Stephen King

Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..] — Michael A. Vine

A perfectly placed word is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. — Louise Benson

When, I wondered, did every pregnant person get together and decide that Mama was the appropriate term to use? Why did having a baby turn these people into hillbillies? — Jennifer Close

It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices. — Helen Phillips

The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms. — Elisabeth Marbury

The telephone," he wrote, "may be briefly described as an electrical contrivance for reproducing in different places the tones and articulations of a speaker's voice so that Conversations can be carried on by word of mouth between persons in different rooms, in different streets or in different Towns. ... The great advantage it possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus is that it requires no skill to operate the instrument. — Bill Bryson

Successful heretics create their own religions ... You can recognize the need for faith in your idea, you can find the tribe you need to support you, and yes, you can create a new religion around your faith. Steve Jobs did it on purpose at Apple and Phil Knight is famous for doing it at Nike. — Seth Godin

The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself. — John Gokongwei

You can't come back to TV for two months. It's too short. You can't start anything. It's too much of a tease and there's really nowhere you can go. — Chris Jericho

How's that wrestling match with God going?" Pigpen asks. "From here you look mighty tired. — Katie McGarry

Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? ... The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison ... If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit. — Zora Neale Hurston