Quotes by Rwandan Authors - Page 2

Scars we have today are the constant reminder of our past. They are our auto energizer in our journey toward the future. No need to fear the scars.
Jean Nshimiyimana
Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is a stampede to get to the top
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Woman must be financially independent to be free in love
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Many people don't know they have stopped believing in god. Their neighbors do
Bangambiki Habyarimana
People who are afraid to become gods say “it's impossible
Bangambiki Habyarimana
God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal
Bangambiki Habyarimana
As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You will always find all the time you need in the world to do what you love. If you can’t find the time, it’s not important for you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
All of the wars in the world are fueled by power struggles either at individual, national or international levels
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You are not required to perform like them, you are required to perform like you.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There are no laws set in stones, follow your basic instincts, they contain the laws that guide you existence.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You are not a real thinker if your thoughts haven't landed you in trouble yet
Bangambiki Habyarimana
By your behavior you send signals on how people should treat you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level as the other members of the quadrinity
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.
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
To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Men are handicapped in love, either in giving or in receiving. They consider love as a sign of weakness
Bangambiki Habyarimana
What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
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
Humility is not weakness but a quality of strength.
Paul Gitwaza
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
In love the brain is situated in the heart
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When you cant decipher the seasons, you are unable to know your destiny.
Paul Gitwaza
False belief is more emotional than true belief
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone’s dream
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I still wonder how policy officials... can sit down at the table with their families and have any appetite for food, or go to sleep at night, knowing that they failed to act. Human beings were sacrificed for political convenience. This would be enough, I think, to turn any reasonable man into a prisoner of his own conscience for the rest of his life.
Paul Rusesabagina
Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you want to be extremely important in people's lives, give them extremely good services they can't find anywhere else
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A woman is a poem, a man is a report
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A god without wrath, without intimidation, without punishment, without hell? It would be a paper tiger, a teddy bear!
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Every book has its ancestors
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Death is the great equalizer
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Self-fulfilling prophecy always come to pass
Bangambiki Habyarimana
From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the club only if you are a strong minded individual capable of handling your life alone without the help of gods. )
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to access power by all means either by sacrificing others to its altar or by sacrificing himself when he fails.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is so sweet. A man will even kiss the a** of his enemy to have his head spared
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life has a positive and negative side. Happy people ignore the negative side
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The fame is birthed through the opposition. The success through the dynamism of fighting the despair. No fight, No lift!
Paul Gitwaza
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
There are many languages in the world but the most widely spoken and understood by everyone are power, love and money.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Pain is the University of Life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
As long as there will be something to conquer, world peace will be a pipe dream
Bangambiki Habyarimana
In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me".
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politicians look for interests not people
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's true not because it's beyond doubt, but because we believe it to be true. We make it true. We are safe as long as no one can disprove us
Bangambiki Habyarimana