22.10.09

Noteable Quotes

 

I CONGRATULATE you for uniting to consider the issues relating to your country and your future, because this is one way of building the spirit of tolerance. – Prime Minister Nahas Angula to the Political Youth Forum, young representatives from various political parties

IF you go there, you must behave. – South African President Jacob Zuma to ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema who is planning to visit an informal settlement where residents are protesting service delivery

NOBODY made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. – Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797), British statesman and writer
WE don’t know what had gotten into him. He was a very large man and we were too scared to approach him. – Dirk Basson, a passenger on a SAA flight to Kenya describing how a flight attendant dealt with a “very large man” after he shouted racist comments, hit a flight attendant and also tried to spit on fellow passengers

OUTSIDE of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. – Groucho Marx (1890 – 1977),  American comedian, actor and singer

From the history books
IN love, one and one are one. – Jean Paul Sartre, French writer and philospher. On October 22, 1964, Sartre rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature, saying it would reduce the impact of his writing