Potokwane Quotes

#1. Although she was not a great reader, Mma Potokwane was a firm believer in the power of the book. The more books that Botswana had, in her view, the better. It would be on books that the future would be based; books and the people who knew how to use them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that?

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. Mma Ramotswe sighed. 'We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.'
That is true,' said Mma Potokwane sadly. 'There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

Judith Martin

#5. 'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

Dhani Harrison

#6. Poets shouldn't vote.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. A church that's lost it's voice for justice is a church that's lost it's relevance in the world.

Richard Stearns

#8. I thought I could play at love...But I've found out I'm not made that way...I can't play this game if my heart's not in it.

Cinda Williams Chima

#9. We were taught that the French were our archenemies, that the Italians were traitors, that Austria had lost the First World War only because of a "stab in the back" - but I must tell you, we were never sure who had done the stabbing.

Edith Hahn Beer

#10. It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.

J.R. Rim

#11. To him those last few crumbs, sucked slowly onto the tongue from between the tines of the fork, always seemed like the sweetest part of the slice.

Stephen King

#12. She was his thief, nobody else's.

Dragos

Thea Harrison

#13. The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

Milovan Djilas

#14. I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.

William Shatner

#15. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!

Charles Dickens

#16. No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

Gore Vidal

#17. A change was coming over the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. - Froude's History of England, ch. i.

William Hurrell Mallock