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Noteable Quotes

Noteable Quotes

WE have infected each other with hope and optimism and so let’s go out there and infect others. – Gordon Moyo, senior aide to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai after the announcement of an action plan for the country to restore basic rights, heal political scars and boost international trust

FORTUNATELY not too many of our people read newspapers, so they don’t believe in such gimmicks. – SA Communist Party secretary-general Blade Nzimande saying the media should ‘hang its head in shame’, for its part in the ‘conspiracy’ against (ANC President Jacob) Zuma against whom corruption charges were dropped this weekWHENEVER you do anything, act as if all the world were watching. – Thomas JeffersonI NEVER think of the future. It comes soon enough. – Albert EinsteinIF you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. – Lewis Carroll( 1832-1898), English logician, mathematician, photographer and novelistWHENEVER you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. – William James (1842 – 1910) American philosopher and psychologistTHE mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William A. WardEGOTISM is the anaesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. – Frank William Leahy, football coach (1908-1973)SCIENCE is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard PowersTEARS are words the heart can’t express. – UnknownFrom the history booksDO you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? – Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles marry at a small ceremony in Windsor, England on April 9 2005THE callous murder of Isithwalandwe Chris Hani in 1993 struck a grave blow to those South Africans who regarded him as a hero of the liberation struggle, and threatened to derail the process towards a political settlement in this country. – ANC spokesperson Jessie Duarte last month when the North Gauteng High Court turned down an application for his murderer Clive Derby-Lewis to be freed on parole. Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani was assassinated in South Africa on April 10 1993.YOU cannot run faster than a bullet. – Ugandan President Idi Amin. Tanzanian-backed rebels seized control in Uganda and the dictator was deposed and fled to Libya on April 11 1979WE, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. – America’s 32nd US President President Franklin D Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., aged 63 on April 12 1956 HOCKEY is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. – Tiger Woods became the first golfer in history to win four consecutive major tournaments, known as golf’s grand slam, by winning the Masters tournament in Augusta, Georgia on April 13 2001

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