Sir Laurens Van Der Post Quotes

#1. In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was probably a reasonable thing to do.

Condoleezza Rice

#2. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

James Frey

#3. There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Henry Ford

#4. If you are still tied to your past, the devil will keep using it as a weapon against you

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Liars prove their ignorance with every word they speak.

Aaron L. Carter

#6. [The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

Sir Laurens Van Der Post

#7. Let me see a complete reorganization of the North Atlantic fleet's defensive strategy against Nazi U-boats. And if it won't go on one side of one sheet of paper, it hasn't been properly thought out - Winston Churchill.

Patrick Robinson

#8. I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

Raphael Saadiq

#9. He found himself playing the love-sick fool vying for a crumb of attention or approval from Genevieve. Anything to make her smile. Make her happy. He'd give her the damn moon if that was what it took.

Maya Banks

#10. [The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

Sir Laurens Van Der Post

#11. And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

Thomas A Kempis

#12. we need to be vigilant that emotions do not cripple us.

Graeme Simsion

#13. The words you use can influence your life. Positive words are well spring of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.

Jo Ann V. Glim

#15. Man is everywhere dangerously unaware of himself. We really know nothing about the nature of man, and unless we hurry to get to know ourselves we are in dangerous trouble.

Sir Laurens Van Der Post

#16. Self-pity shortens your life ...

Joan Rivers