Notable Quotes
IN the absence of a statement, please conclude that it’s all moving reasonably well. – The government of South Africa insisting that no news on Nelson Mandela is good news and that he is continuing to recover well.
WE must support organisations that give financial assistance to women who do not wish to have abortions, because it is murder that deserves no pity. – Yonah Metzger, one of Israel’s two chief Ashkenazi rabbis urged the country’s religious establishment to back an organisation campaigning against abortion.
WE have decided that no lawyer will stand up to defend the rape accused, as it would be immoral to defend the case. – Sanjay Kumar, a lawyer and member of the Saket District Bar Council, told AFP that the accused in the Indian gang-rape case which has sparked an outcry in the Asian country will have to defend themselves in trial.
FOR us, Damara is the red line that the rebels cannot cross, If they attack Damara, we will attack. – General Jean Felix Akaga, of FOMAC, says a push on Damara, 75km north of the capital of the Central African Republic, would be a declaration of war. This comment come amid an announcement that the president of CAR fired his son as acting defence minister along with his army chief of staff in efforts to quell the rebellion.
HE worked really hard on the ring. I’m not a big diamond girl, but I really love this diamond he did. It just represents how he feels about me, and I’m really blessed to have someone like him. – American R&B singer, Brandy Norwood on her recent engagement to Ryan Press, saying that the proposal was spontaneous.
SECRECY is the source of the rumours that increase uncertainty and cause anguish. – Opposition leader Ramon Guillermo Aveledo told reporters Monday, calling on the government to release more details about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s current health situation and his prognosis.
From The History Books
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. – Maureen Reagan (January 4 1941- August 8 2001). Maureen Elizabeth Reagan was the first child of former President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman.
I HAVE come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco (born January 5 1932) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic and novelist.
WHEN writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good. – Wright Marion Morris (January 6 1910 – April 25 1998) was an American novelist, photographer and essayist.