Quotes by Rwandan Authors - Page 2

You should never consider finished a war you did not win
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Never get angry against fate, she is looking for someone to crush, why put a spotlight on yourself?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is existence with meaning
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Never create doubt in a person. Doubts have the habit of hanging around even if the original cause is over. Doubt never wants to be caught unawares again
Bangambiki Habyarimana
By your behavior you send signals on how people should treat you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed
Bangambiki Habyarimana
God's silence is an answer itself.
Paul Gitwaza
Everything is possible to god, even your success
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it’s not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and live. These thieves are praised as national heroes and liberators or as successful entrepreneurs.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
My wife does not need the whole country to play politics with. We are only the two of us at home but she plays the highest form of politics with me. That’s why I don't understand her ways. I think I need to do a bit of political science to understand her
Bangambiki Habyarimana
He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my right to meet that wrath on him," thunders the fanatic
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Success is across the roaring river, the brave shall cross it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
One man encompasses all of humanity. Harming one man is harming humanity
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live accordingly to cope with it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I don't know the beginnings and the end of all things? But apparently most people do.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.
Immaculée Ilibagiza
Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am sorry, I am not a writer. I simply put my thoughts on paper. Those helped by them call them a book and me a writer. Those who are not helped call it rubbish and me a fool. Both have reason.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Give dry bread to a rich kid and he will throw it into the dustbin, give it to the poor kid and he will remember your name for the rest of his days
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Whatever we do and are, we are given the means thereof
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
An angry enemy is a conquered enemy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many friends would you be left with?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Power hungry=life loving
Bangambiki Habyarimana
As there is no joy for the broken heart, there is not also an harmony to a guitar with broken strings!
Bruce Mbanzabugabo
Love is the politics of sex
Bangambiki Habyarimana
After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you are doing something good, never do it free
Nelson Nshekanabo
If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Encouraging words are hands that pool others from the despair of life.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You say you need to love others, but do you love yourself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Apply the lie detector to everything. You will be amazed at how many lies you will discover. Beware tough, you may discover that you are a lie.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is no art without artist, try to paint your future under God's control.
Bruce Mbanzabugabo
Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new Jerusalem
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I came looking for life and I found you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their own and usurped power from the rest of us. But they are usurpers; power belongs to every one of us. Seek it as much as possible. There is no shame in that. In fact it's a necessity. Either you have power or you are trampled to death in the stampede to get to the top
Bangambiki Habyarimana
False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Our Success or Stagnation depends on the level of Agreement that we have with the people around us.
Paul Gitwaza
A final victory is a succession of small victories
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can’t afford medical care.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politicians are a breed of the human race who believe they know everything
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Anything does not exist until it is created. You create it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Nothing in nature happens voluntarily. Everything is forced to happen. There is a hidden hand that forces things to move.
Bangambiki Habyarimana