Simnikiwe Xabanisa Quotes & Sayings

Never let a serial killer buy you coffee — Howard Roughan

Soon after [George Yeo] became a politician, he made a famous speech, and for the first time, the term "OB markers" was used in political discourse. He was using golfing language to vividly make the point that Singapore needed OB markers to demarcate areas of public life that should remain out of bounds to social activism and the media. Otherwise, society paid an unacceptably high price. His essential point was that Singaporeans worked better if the cover of the banyan tree did not remain so broad. He was signalling that the state should pull back and give the people more free play. — Cheong Yip Seng

That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present moment ... The air seems to become as accessible to him as the waters ... The name of Montgolfier, the names of those hardy navigators of the new element, will live through time; but who among us, on seeing these superb experiments, has not felt his soul elevated, his ideas expanded, his mind enlarged? — Jean Sylvain Bailly

He walked with just such a limp as I have seen in footsore tramps. — H.G.Wells

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner. — Idries Shah

On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office. — Ted Cruz