Popular quotes
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“If it's illegal to rock and roll, then throw me in jail.”
“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
“Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.”
“Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.”
“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”
Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
As prime minister, introducing the 4th Amendment to the Constitution Bill, 23 May 1980, which envisaged a tricameral corporate federation. Cited in The Star, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, PW Botha in his own words, p. 27
“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”
Source: "The Subject and Power" (1982), p. 785
“Like it or not, your existence is grounded in faith.”
Other
Meeting with European legislators http://www.afghanistannewscenter.com/news/2000/june/jun23i2000.html (11 June 2000).
“The Christian land, has lost his sword and shields.”
It is believed that Skanderbeg said on his death
Source: Alphonse de Lamartine (Ottoman History)
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled”
“Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.”
“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want.”
Source: Biography
“It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.”
from the 1986 song "I Know It's Over"
From songs