Alan Paton Quotes

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Alan Paton

• World
• Great
• Different
• Pride
• Nation
• Groups
• Contribution
• South Africa
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• Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Now
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • World
  • Today
  • Earth

• I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Respect

• This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Explore

• I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • History
  • Vision

• I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Great
  • Home
  • Empathy

• I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Nation

• A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Hero
  • Heroic

• As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Different
  • You

• I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Great
  • Me
  • Know

• In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Different
  • Country
  • Religion

• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Grace

• I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• Any rehearsal process - I find, anyway - does have quite an effect on me, and I very much live in that world for the whole period of time that I'm involved with the production. But normally, afterwards with a little bit of space, I can come right back out of it again.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • People
  • Long
  • Travel

• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Earth
  • Suffering

• It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Result
  • Horrible
  • Evils

• One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, 'Oh, boy. I like this.'

  

  Jill Scott
  • Up
  • Great
  • Singing

• I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

  

  Alan Paton
  • World
  • Great
  • Different