Siyabulela Mandela Quotes & Sayings

Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health. — Yip Harburg

We're creating a dystopia, where the mania of the state isn't secrecy or censorship but unfairness. Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process. Winners get rich and get off. Losers go broke and go to jail. It isn't just that some clever crook on Wall Street can steal a billion dollars and never see the inside of a courtroom; it's that, plus the fact that some black teenager a few miles away can go to jail just for standing on a street corner, that makes the whole picture complete. — Matt Taibbi

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives. — Cecelia Ahern

People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again — James St. James

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach. — Matthew McConaughey

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained. — Cordell Hull

I don't complain. — Craig Kilborn

Life is just one long day separated into sections by sleep. Life never stops happening until you are dead. So whatever happens-love, grief, hate, shame- never disappears. It just gets easier to live with. It just scabs over, waiting for something else significant to happen. — Sunshine O'Donnell

I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board. — Philip Davies

Friendship isn't something we passively receive. Friendship is something we actively do. It's a gift we offer for free, not a demand we make with a stamping foot. — Lisa-Jo Baker

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't think anyone's had the stranger danger talk with him. Because rule number one is that you don't jump into strange unmarked vans with the bad guys, — T.M. Frazier

No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years. — Pete Rose