Thembisile Hani Quotes & Sayings

It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising." — Charles Dickens

Alas! how easily things go wrong! — George MacDonald

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience ... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.

That's because I'm made of awesome."
"And dipped in awesome."
"And sprinkled with awesome."
"Gods, I love the taste of awesome. — Gena Showalter

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it. — Tim Burton

My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words. — James Howe

With the persistence of data, there is, too, the persistence of people. If you friend someone as a ten-year-old, it takes positive action to unfriend that person. In principle, everyone wants to stay in touch with the people they grew up with but social networking makes the idea of "people from one's past" close to an anachronism. Corbin reaches for a way to express his discomfort. he says "For the first time, people will stay your friends. It makes it harder to let go of your life and move on." Sanjay, sixteen, who wonders if he will be "writing on my friends' walls when I'm a grown-up," sums up his misgivings: "For the first time people can stay in touch with people all of their lives. But it used to be good that people could leave their high school friends behind and take on new identities. — Sherry Turkle

I also go on long walks with my dog, a golden retriever named Breeze-and I work out with weights at a health club a couple of times a week. — Karen Hughes

If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk? — Erma Bombeck

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. — Jeanette Winterson

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. — David Quammen

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target. — GG Allin

Whether the United States is a hegemon, an indispensable power, or an empire at sunset, and whether China or some other rival stands to take its place, may be a debate that consumes international relations. But its terms are not adapted to a world where power is decaying - where unprecedented forms of fracturing are under way within each of these countries and across systems of trade, investment, migration, and culture. Identifying who is up and who is down is less important than understanding what is going on inside those nations, political movements, corporations, and religions that are on the elevator. Who is up and who is down will matter ever less in a world in which those who get to the top don't stay there for long and are able to do less and less with the power they have while there. — Moises Naim

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. — Alan Watts