Bangambiki Habyarimana Quotes - Page 5

It does not matter what you have but who you are

Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do

Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein

Calm is the best revenge

Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war

Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you

Life is just a dream, to some it's a sweet dream, to others, a nightmare. But whatever it is, it's always short and dissipates quickly.

I am what I have ever read

If god created hell, who will blame his followers for trying to establish it on earth

If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it

Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification

The greatest wisdom is to be happy

An angry enemy is a conquered enemy

Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government

It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great

Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others

Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.

Did you know you could destroy dragons? Dragons are not actually real, they just roar to scare you away from your goals. In fact they are afraid of determined heroes, they take flight at their approach

Honestly speaking honesty can sometimes land you in hot waters

The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor

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

Honesty is a very choosy virtue

Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

True understanding lies beyond the desert

An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hope

Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food

I admire the way the Bible defies anybody who wants to nail it on a preferred meaning. There are so many ways to interpret the Bible as there are different opinions about what a certain passage or verse really means. So anybody can go there and read a meaning into (eigesis) whatever passage or verse he wants to suit his inclinations. Proof that the Bible is inspired? It caters for all sorts of people and views.

We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.

Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it

Love starts having troubles when the brains encroaches on its territory

Falling in love is literally falling from your independence to let another control your life

Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.

You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with

Most politicians would love to lead politically blind people.

The true god has no beginning and has no end, it was not begotten and cannot beget, it cannot die and resurrect. He is responsible of everything good and evil and he is the sustainer of life. If he can save he saves all without distinction

Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive

Somethings are simply better left the way they are.

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

Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.

State what you want, and go for it, don't refuse yourself a request you did not make.

Give the world what it wants and it will give you what you want

Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths

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

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality

Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control.

When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons

You don't have to finish today, what is important is that you finish. But remember today might be the last day of your life.

Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties.

The poor eats with his eyes, the rich with his mouth.

The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you

Power hungry=life loving

If my mother will not go to heaven, I renounce the privilege

You will see true character after a defeated ambition

All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.

You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested

Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways

You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster