Notable Quotes
AS a nation, we must interrogate ourselves. – Deputy Minister of Education, David Namwandi expressed disappointment on the 2012 Grade 12 ordinary level results.
THERE is no end to school, you can go back and try again to make it. – 2012 Grade 12 ordinary level top achiever, Annastasia Mukanda from St Boniface College encourages fellow learners who failed to “continue working hard”.
ONLY Namibian citizens should be allowed to own land, foreigners will only be allowed to lease. – Albert Kawana, Presidential Affairs Minister said only Namibians will be allowed to buy land, the passing of a promulgating law that will prevent foreigners from purchasing urban land in Namibia.
I have determined that some of these deeds of brutality and destruction may constitute war crimes. – Hague-based court’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement after the International Criminal Court on Wednesday opened a war crimes probe on Mali, where French troops are fighting Islamist rebels who have been occupying half the country since April last year.
This reminds me of something... an ad that somebody made at two in the morning after one too many drinks, and no one stopped it in the morning. – Former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs critisised National Rifle Association (NRA) advertisement that referred to Barrack Obama’s two school-aged daughters.
The fact that we recognise them as the legitimate government would allow the World Bank and the IMF to do things that they had not been able to do before. – US official, who asked to remain anonymous, said that although no official American aid package would be unveiled, the United States of America will officially recognise the Somali government.
I always knew how to enjoy life and I always believed very strongly in both working and playing really hard. And I have four wonderful kids ... Well, actually, five ... who have been a great joy, so life couldn’t be better. – Arnold Schwarzenegger called his affair his biggest personal failure.
From The History Books
I’M a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a ‘reality.’ – Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18 1955) is an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and businessman. He has won two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and one Emmy Award, and has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards.
They will kill me, but it will not be a mafia’s revenge, mafia do not use murder to get revenge. Maybe mafia will physically kill me, but he/she who will actually order my murder will be “others”. – Paolo Borsellino (January 19 1940 - July 19 1992) was an Italian anti-Mafia magistrate. He was killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, 57 days after his friend and fellow Anti mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone was assassinated.
If all the artists you loved changed you, they’d hack you up in little piece and you’d never get back together. That, or you’d end up loving only one artist forever. – Robert Olen Butler ( January 20 1945, age 67) is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection ‘A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain’ was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993.