Noteable Quotes

BLUE lights and security personnel seem to be a fashion accessory for Malema, like Paris Hilton’s dog in the handbag. – Democratic Alliance MP Dianne Kohler Barnard responding to ANCYL leader Julius Malema’s alleged speeding in Limpopo, and his asking for VIP protection

THEY are faster than a normal factory because they are driven by kind-heartedness. – Lead volunteer Wu Yueh-yin in a Taiwanese Buddhist charity that makes blankets for disaster victims by recycling plastic bottlesWE need to prepare as warriors and be prepared to fight all comers, lions, tigers, elephants, whatever. We must be prepared and I believe I will get the squad ready in time. – Newly-reappointed Bafana Bafana head coach Carlos Alberto ParreiraHE was busy eating a lollipop. I approached him and asked why he killed my son, but he looked at me as if I was crazy. – Mapule Aphane, quoted in the Sowetan, after a police officer allegedly shot and killed her son Atlegang, 3, in Rabie Ridge, Midrand, apparently after mistaking a pipe in his hand for a gunTHIS is a rubbish bin that was in my head. Here are all the incidents and things that happened between me and the accused. After our relationship I closed the lid and thought it would remain my secret and never come out. After the call from [journalist] Phillip de Bruin the whole bin burst open and everything spilt onto my head. – Robbie Klay, testifying in the High Court in Pretoria, about his alleged abuse by fellow singer Jurie ElsNINETY per cent of the politicians give the other ten per cent a bad name. – Henry Kissinger (born 1923), is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace PrizeI SWALLOWED 17 nails in February and didn’t die. Five-inch nails, all in one day. – Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru where doctors in the city of Cajamarca said they removed around three kilos of metal from his stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metalPEOPLE never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. – Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1815 – 1898) was a Prussian German statesman and aristocrat of the 19th centuryFrom the history booksFOR glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. – Charles de Gaulle, President of France. On November 13, 1945, General de Gaulle was elected president of the French Provisional GovernmentONE of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations … is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. – Jimmy Carter, US president. On November 14, 1979, Carter froze Iranian government assets held in American banks following the seizure of the US embassy in TehranINFLATION is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. – American humourist Sam Ewing. On November 15, 1923, rampant inflation in Germany reached a peak, and its currency was standing at four trillion marks to the dollar