187 Quotes About South-africa

We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

To make a difference in the world, you don't have to be perfect, clever or beautiful. You just need to be kind.

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

What I had not known was that perception of people like us did not quite coincide with our perception of who we were and what we were about. More than anything, however, being a domestic servant did more to me than it did for me. It introduced me to the fundamentals of racism.

Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.

The ‘Buffaloes’ were becoming a legend. The Colonel had forged them into a superb fighting machine […] Enough for a young hothead like me to want to be one of them [...]Sam pauses and looks for a moment into the sparkling fire. The scar on his jaw glistens against the dark skin like broken glass [...]You slowly fall prey to a sick frenzy. You develop a lust for blood. You even begin to enjoy killing.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.