Witwatersrand Gold Quotes & Sayings

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority. — Harlan Stone

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. — John Fletcher

Most of the ideas I've gotten for novels or screenplays have occurred to me while I was either shaving or taking a bath. A number have occurred to me while I was driving 127. I rarely get ideas when seated in front of my typewriter, which I find ironic because I have always suspected that typing somehow plays a key role in writing. — Gary Reilly

Darkness had spread over my skin like ink. — Haruki Murakami

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later. — Drew Goddard

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. — James Boswell

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites. — Kurt Russell

Inept lying was almost as good as honesty. — Graham Moore

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom. — Sun Yat-sen

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically. — Bertrand Russell

If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways. — Martin Villeneuve

There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in partnership, we can transform today's challenge into tomorrow's opportunity - an opportunity for green growth and sustainable prosperity ... we also need a strong bottom-up push from academics and opinion-shapers such as you. Universities such as yours are founts of ideas and innovation. They are furnaces of innovation and entrepreneurship. So, send forth this word. — Ban Ki-moon

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play. — Sarada Devi