Bloemfontein Quotes

#1. For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet

#2. A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution.
[Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

Nelson Mandela

#3. Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

Leo Buscaglia

#4. If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player's batting average during baseball season!

Billy Graham

#5. I didn't go there looking for you. I went looking for me." My voice is soft, low, and shaky. "But now, here you are, and somehow, in finding you, I think I've found myself.

Tamara Ireland Stone

#6. For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.

A.W. Tozer

#7. I kind of feel like I grew up at Disneyland.

Blake Lively

#8. A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

#9. The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Peter Shaffer

#10. It isn't possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.

Shams Tabrizi

#12. All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.

John Hersey

#13. Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

Earl Wilson

#14. The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

Patti Smith

#15. The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

William Osler

#16. Who can be close to you without the Divine Light of his heart?

Sorin Cerin

#17. I'm not interested in disposable music.

Taraji P. Henson