Notable Quotes

This is affirmation that structures of the party are recognised. Similarly, it should be for section, branch, district, regional leaders of the party be considered in the same way. – Elijah Ngurare, the secretary of the Swapo Party Youth League said about the appointments of the former regional co-ordinators.

When we reinforced and returned to the scene the terrorists came out with heavy firepower. – Nigerian Military spokesman Brigadier General Austin Edokpaye said after about 185 people were killed during fierce clashes between the Nigerian military and heavily-armed Boko Haram militants in the country’s Borno state.

Do you know my name? You’re about to find out who I am and You’re about to be on national news. – Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon is quoted as asking a state trooper after authorities detained her husband for drunk driving.

From The History Books
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood.  –  Granville T Woods was born in Columbus, Ohio, on 23 April 1856, to free African-Americans. He held various engineering and industrial jobs before establishing a company to develop electrical apparatus. Known as ‘Black Edison’, he registered nearly 60 patents in his lifetime, including a telephone transmitter, a trolley wheel and the multiplex telegraph (over which he defeated a lawsuit by Thomas Edison). Woods died in 1910.

---