Antjie Krog Quotes

#1. Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, and age for gods and heroes.

George R R Martin

#2. I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

Antjie Krog

#3. It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.

Antjie Krog

#4. What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,
the eternal laws!

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Death comes for us all in the end.

J.K. Rowling

#6. No one hates war more than those who fight

Ronie Kendig

#7. And everyone wants to know: Who? Why? The victims ask the hardest of all the questions: How is it possible that the person I loved so much lit no spark of humanity in you?

Antjie Krog

#8. I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.

David Prowse

#9. Sometimes when I am driving I get so angry at inconsiderate drivers that I want to scream at them. But then I remember how insignificant that is, and I thank God that I have a car and my health and gas. That was phrased wrong-normally you wouldn't say, thank God I have gas.

Ellen DeGeneres

#10. Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#11. Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

Kevin Kelly

#12. do not let our princes accuse fortune for the loss of their principalities after so many years' possession, but rather their own sloth, because in quiet times they never thought there could be a change (it is a common defect in man not to make any provision in the calm against the tempest), and

Niccolo Machiavelli