Quotes by Rwandan Authors - Page 5

Don't be alarmed, the god I am trying to kill is the one I hate, not the one I love
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Love is always based on self-interest
Bangambiki Habyarimana
All religions are guesswork
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You say you need to love others, but do you love yourself
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
‎Reconciliation‬ is the most significant level of life's maturity!
Paul Gitwaza
Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely
Bangambiki Habyarimana
There is no sin, no crime, no evil, God cannot forgive
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell
Bangambiki Habyarimana
People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't blaming your challenge but get up and look it as a bridge to your success.
Bruce Mbanzabugabo
At the beginning love is a fact, at the end it's a theory
Bangambiki Habyarimana
An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Power and love can break the most stubborn resistence
Bangambiki Habyarimana
All you need to be recognized as an authority is to be recognized by a recognized authority
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't think you are irreplaceable, or the world will end when you are gone
Bangambiki Habyarimana
People will print what they will capturing but try to give the real image through positive thinking for that you will prove them how they are wrong!
Bruce Mbanzabugabo
Destiny is not what you become but what you do with it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It does not matter what you have but who you are
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
Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Calm is the best revenge
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I am what I have ever read
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If god created hell, who will blame his followers for trying to establish it on earth
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If I had time, money and knowledge I could write about everything; but no problem, Google is already doing it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The greatest wisdom is to be happy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
An angry enemy is a conquered enemy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government
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
Some people spend the best part of their lives living the dreams of others
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Honestly speaking honesty can sometimes land you in hot waters
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
Honesty is a very choosy virtue
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The gap inside you needs someone who deserves you to feel it. Once you found him/her you will always feel the deep happiness that you never had before. Love will always be there watching.
Jean Nshimiyimana
You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there
Bangambiki Habyarimana
True understanding lies beyond the desert
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an easy way for Westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but pointless bloodbath that happens to primitive brown people.
Paul Rusesabagina
Love starts having troubles when the brains encroaches on its territory
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Falling in love is literally falling from your independence to let another control your life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You will know a friendship is not natural when you don't feel relaxed with
Bangambiki Habyarimana