Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes - Page 3

Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying

When you look down on yourself, you set an example on how others should treat you.

They only let us live in millions for the sake of the economy. I don't know what will happen by the time they figure out how to run the economy without the people

A bad friend is nothing but a spy

A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness

It’s natural for people to feel superior to those under them. It requires a conscious effort to value those less fortunate than you are.

At the end of the day you are your own lawmaker

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens

Planning is worrying based on facts

Everything is possible to god, even your success

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

Learn how they failed and succeeded, then fail on and succeed

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.

Love is the politics of sex

Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself

Society says "Don't talk about sex, just do it

To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide

Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That's life

Writing is magic happening on paper

Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control

A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him. He can hear the devil’s defense and god’s accusations. The guards at the king’s heart let him in. The writer can be anything and any one he wants. When he writes he is a god, he creates.

Never advise a man against his wife or a wife against his husband. When they come together again you will be the archenemy. When they separate, the fault will all be yours

If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner

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.

Religion is pure hypnosis

Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell

We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero

Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.

Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it.

Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, he will use your weakness against you

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife

Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer

Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics

Every life is a unique random business

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.

On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots

A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything

Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help

Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means

We hate people who honestly tell us what they think about us. We wish we were what we are not

It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.

Paradise is the heart of the people who speak well of you; who think fondly about you because of your exemplary life. Hell is is the heart of the people who curse you, who wish you were dead for your evil actions against them

Stop searching for god in the farthest corners of the universe. He is in you. You are it

The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself

Some people use love as a tool to enslave others

The greatest law is: love yourself first

A writer is never alone, he is always with himself

Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying.

One day I will write a book. An epitaph

The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.

Anything does not exist until it is created. You create it

If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing

I am 1324512000 seconds old. In the cosmic blink of an eye, I will become once again cosmic dust.

It's a sin only if it harms you

Why do we love heroes? Because life is a fight.

You have to sacrifice life to get life

The hard truth is that sometimes we need to lie to ourselves to continue to live

You need to have the means to impose yourself