Noteable Quotes

WHAT makes the NBC so special? – Parliamentary Standing Committee on Accounts chairman, Johan De Waal, questioning why the public broadcaster is allowed to accumulate huge debts for the non-payment of PAYE to the Receiver of Revenue.

YOU can’t have an acronym like this when you’re referring to elderly people. – Representative Dave Heaton, 68, when the Iowa legislature approved changing the name of Department of Elder Affairs to Department on Ageing or DOA which also stands for dead on arrival.WHEN I realised that the British were cooperating with the people torturing me, I felt completely naked. They sold me out. – Binyam Mohameddd, a 30-year-old Ethiopian-born former British resident and the first detainee to be transferred out of Guantanamo Bay since President Barack Obama took office CONSCIENCE is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one’s course by it, one must still try to follow its direction. – Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) One who loves you, warns you. – Baganda proverbFrom the history booksTHERE is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. – Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) married Josephine de Beauharnais in Paris, France on March 9 1796