De Klerk And Mandela Quotes

#1. My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.

Sam Shepard

#2. The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

F. W. De Klerk

#3. He's got a great right foot, and if he can get his head around that he'll be a great player.

Ray Wilkins

#4. You only get inspired, if you are willing to.

Krishna Sagar

#5. There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are places of beauty and of changed landscape is helpful - but far more important for me is that they offer what I feel as a monastic luxury: undisturbed time.

Jane Hirshfield

#7. It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.

F. W. De Klerk

#8. But if we make it through this together, we'll be stronger. If we make it through this alone, we'll just be better at being alone.

Priscilla West

#9. I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

Louis C.K.

#10. The heart is a demanding tenant; it frequently makes a strong argument against common sense.

Julie Kibler

#11. I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

John Frankenheimer

#12. If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

Yoshida Kenko

#13. the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip.

Claudia Rankine

#14. Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere.

Michael Jackson

#16. It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.

F. W. De Klerk

#17. When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

F. W. De Klerk

#18. Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again, and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.

Eve Bunting

#19. President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.

F. W. De Klerk