P. W. Botha Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The American dream is about freedom.
-
As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
-
When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.
-
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
-
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
-
This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
-
Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
-
I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
-
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
-
I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
-
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
-
I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
-
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
-
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
-
Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
-
I hyperventilate quite a lot.
-
I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.
-
I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.
-
It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.
-
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
-
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
-
Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.
