Noteable Quotes
THEY should notify us every month and they normally do it. – Electoral Commission of Namibia director Moses Ndjarakana explaining that the Ministry of Home Affairs generally informs the ECN of voters who have died
WE are all very proud of what we have achieved. Of course I am biased, but I think it is the best stadium (in the world). – Mike Moody project director of the 89 000-seat Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg which has just been completed and will host the first World Cup match next year
YOU who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practise mindfulness, calm, deep listening and loving speech. – Nhat Hanh (born 1926) is an expatriate Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist
NEVER doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – American anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901 – 1978) whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific work
SPORTS do not build character. They reveal it. – American John Wooden (born 1910)
WASHING one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. – Paulo Freire (1921 – 1997) was a Brazilian educator
FEAR is not the natural state of civilized people. – Aung San Suu Kyi AC ( born 1945) is an opposition politician and general secretary of the National League for Democracy in Burma (Myanmar)
THE World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. – Saint Augustine ( 354-430), Ancient Roman Christian theologian
I ALWAYS knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. – Cat Stevens (born 1947), acclaimed English singer-songwriter, humanitarian and philanthropist now known as Yusuf Islam
TALENT wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. – American basketball player Michael Jordan (born 1963), widely considered to be the greatest player in the history of the game
CORN can’t expect justice from a court composed of chickens. – African Proverb
From the history books
INTERNATIONAL business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. – Novelist Eric Ambler, considered by Graham Greene to be Britain’s greatest thriller writer. Ambler died on October 23, 1998
MY dream is to save women from nature. – Christian Dior, French fashion designer responsible for the ‘New Look’, died on October 24, 1957
I HAVE made 72 movies in my life and been miscast twice – as a husband. – Irish actor Richard Harris who was married twice. Harris who died on October 25, 2002, made his name with such films as ‘Camelot,’ ‘This Sporting Life,’ and ‘A Man Called Horse’