Breyten Breytenbach Quotes

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

Breyten Breytenbach

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• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • True
  • Reality

• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Him
  • Object

• Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dream

• I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Training

• I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Dark
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Money
  • Government
  • Between

• In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Land
  • Away
  • Ants

• Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Poetry
  • Goal
  • Beauty

• I'll back up anything my dad says.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Back

• I don't like things set in stone.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Like
  • Things
  • Stone

• I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Blessed
  • Questions

• We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Wish
  • Environment

• Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hate

• I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing on that television?

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • School
  • Experience

• You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • City

• Stable climates with muted seasons allow more kinds of organisms to specialize on narrower pieces of the environment, to outcompete the generalists around them, and so persist for longer periods of time. Species are packed more tightly. No niche, it seems goes unfilled. Specialization is likely to be pushed to bizarre, beautiful extremes.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Environment

• If you want a future, darling, Why don't you get a past?

  

  Cole Porter
  • Why
  • Future
  • Past

• When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

  

  James Balog
  • Patience
  • Humility

• I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

  

  Peter Wright
  • Gift
  • Colour
  • Kidney

• I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Hate

• I'm nervous about moving away from my family. That's one thing that I'm really scared of, but I feel like it'll be good for me to live on my own for a bit and really knuckle down on what I really love and study.

  

  Brooklyn Beckham
  • Good
  • Live
  • Family

• In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Good
  • Past
  • Law

• I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

  

  Breyten Breytenbach