Noteable Quotes

IT’S partly a question of dignity. – A Western diplomat on the view of Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, who wants the United Nations peacekeepers out of his country in time for its 50th anniversary next year

SORRY for the tragedy, the absolute tragedy, of childhoods lost. – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologising to about half-a-million ‘Forgotten Australians’ brought to the country as children and were abused, ignored or forced into unpaid labourOBSTINACY is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. – Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860), German philosopher OF life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a labourer’s hand. – Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931), Lebanese-American mystic, poet, dramatist, and artistWHEN suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (born 1930), who described how imposed Western values led to social and psychological disorientation of traditional African society in his book ‘Things Fall Apart’ in 1959From the history booksIT’S kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney. On November, 18, 1928, Disney’s Mickey Mouse made his first appearance at the Colony Theatre in New York in a film called ‘Steamboat Willie’