Noteable Quotes

I WAS just about to open a Pandora’s box. – Former Ministry of Environment and Tourism official Sackey Namugongo who is facing corruption charges for allegedly taking money from people for gambling licences in 2006

THEY are not starving, but they are not at a five-star hotel either. – Ministry of Youth Permanent Secretary Peingeondjabi Shipoh on the 540 ‘children of the struggle’ who have moved to Berg Aukas after camping outside the Swapo headquarters in Windhoek for weeksWE were speechless and happy. – German Chancellor Angela Merkel, originally from East Berlin, describing how she felt when the Berlin Wall came down on November 9 1989 at celebration to mark the 20th anniversary of the eventIF a security guard or a professor had told me something I would have humbly returned home and changed my clothes. – Brazilian Bandeirante University student Geisy Arruda (20) who was expelled for wearing a skimpy dress to class but has now been permitted to return to varsityCERTAIN flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749 – 1832), was a writer and one of the key figures in German literatureFrom the history booksIT is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them, the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. – Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Russian novelist who was born on November 11 1821