Ahmed Kathrada Quotes

#1. Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Donald Rumsfeld

#2. I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

Angela Merkel

#3. When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

Adam Braun

#4. Know that true change is demonstrated only by your actions around everyone, not just certain people.

Tanya R. Liverman

#5. The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.

Nuno Oliveira

#6. For a species low in male parental investment, the basic dynamic of courtship, as we've seen, is pretty simple: the male really wants sex; the female isn't so sure.7

Robert Wright

#7. The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.

Ahmed Kathrada

#8. After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

H.G.Wells

#9. Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire.

Seth MacFarlane

#10. In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

Ahmed Kathrada

#11. Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

Ahmed Kathrada

#12. For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.

Marcel Proust

#13. I just wanted to hold my wife. It was all I had ever wanted to do. I was just as in love with her in our eleventh year as I was in the first.

Jamie McGuire

#14. I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#15. I pressed my lips against his shirt. When I think about my future I see you.

Jamie McGuire