Hottentot Quotes

#1. If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.

Janet Morris

#2. Remember the Hottentots?" asked James. "They've become the Khoi now, which means that the Germans will have to retire that wonderful word of theirs, Hottentotenpotentatenstantenattentater, which means, as you know, one who attacks the aunt of a Hottentot potentate.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

Paul Hawken

#4. Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

Joseph Addison

#5. It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.

Herman Kahn

#6. Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

John Cusack

#7. I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

Gustav Mahler

#8. As a feminist you mustn't blame the other woman," a neighbor told her. "As a feminist I request that you no longer speak to me," Kit replied.)

Lorrie Moore

#9. If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Harry S. Truman

#10. Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

Rajneesh

#11. They were like a firecracker that had burned up. The pretty picture, the sparkling moment was gone; they were just smoke and ashes now.

Sarah Cross

#12. [Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership ... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.

Gail Collins

#13. I like Toronto; the people are really chill.

Rihanna

#14. I received the grace of shadows. The grace of remaining in the dark.
- From A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook

Anna Kamienska

#15. I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

Ashley Judd

#16. Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Draw me not without reason; sheath me not without honour".

Andrzej Sapkowski

#18. I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

Imelda May