Notable Quotes

SOME of the clients listed here as untraceable aren’t that difficult to get to. – Windhoek City Councillor Herbert Schultz commenting on the N$10 million in debt being written off as the municipality can’t collect the outstanding amountsWE’RE equally ashamed of the poor services rendered by the railway carrier.

SOME of the clients listed here as untraceable aren’t that difficult to get to. – Windhoek City Councillor Herbert Schultz commenting on the N$10 million in debt being written off as the municipality can’t collect the outstanding amountsWE’RE equally ashamed of the poor services rendered by the railway carrier. – Works and Transport Minister Helmut Angula speaking to government officials in Keetmanshoop about the state of TransNamibAS a result he makes sure he doesn’t stay in South Africa for more than a day and brings his own official vehicle – a big black Mercedes – and driver. He doesn’t trust South African security services and suspects they can easily be bought by overseas agents to kill him. – A Zimbabwean official, on why President Robert Mugabe brought his own bodyguards to South Africa to attend a SADC summit.THIS is the first I’ve heard of Prime Minister Putin coming out for free enterprise. – Forner US President Bill Clinton joking about the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the World Economic Forum in DavosNO matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. – Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592), French essayistWE can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. – Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe From the history booksSHAKESPEARE is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. – James Joyce (1882 – 1941) was an Irish expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914). He was born on February 2 1882