Ntokozo Mdluli Quotes

#1. Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs.

Marlena De Blasi

#2. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Isaac Watts

#3. Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete

Lao-Tzu

#4. I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

Sam J. Jones

#5. It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.

William J. Clinton

#6. No invention ever comes into being fully developed in a single step, from nothing.
Ten thousand inventions had to be in place before Edison could invent the electric light-bulb.

Daniel Quinn

#7. Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

Joseph Conrad

#8. It's a special form of humiliation, being judged by the things you can't change.

Anonymous

#9. Desire has no particular object. It is a vector. Its object is before it, always to come. Desire vectorizes being toward the emergence of the new. Desire is one with the auto-conducting movement of becoming.

Richard Grusin

#10. Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

Sandra Bullock

#11. I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

Brit Marling

#12. The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

Peter Kropotkin