Quotes by Rwandan Authors - Page 2

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A writer is never alone, he is always with himself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers
Bangambiki Habyarimana
It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The greatest wisdom is to be happy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
True understanding lies beyond the desert
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Know the laws before you break them
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
Sex is an open secret parents try to hide to their children
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you want to know about sex don't ask your parents. They don't have any and know nothing about it. Find out yourself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If success is a miracle then you must be the miracle worker
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When you believe it, you've created it, whatever it is
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The reason you don't succeed in life is because you are too lenient with your deadly enemies. Identify them and eradicate them completely, don't let any of their seed escape your vengeful sword. Don't negotiate with the enemy and never make deals with them. Only after you have wiped them out of the map will success smile at you
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't be afraid to bite on a giant, learn from the mosquito
Bangambiki Habyarimana
State what you want, and go for it, don't refuse yourself a request you did not make.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Every time someone starts a project he is considered nuts, until he beats all the odds and laughs the last.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
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
What some politicians really mean when they saythis country: me, my party, my ethnic groupinternational justice is biased: they want to arrest meterrorists: oppositionillegal immigrants: refugeeselections: remaining in powerpeace: eliminating the oppositioninternational community: the rich countriesthe people: sympathisers of my party
Bangambiki Habyarimana
In order to protect their good names for posterity, many writers never wrote what they thought or the truth as it stood. That's why truth still lies hidden in matters of power, sex and religion. No wonder they chose to do so, many who dared paid with their heads
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't lose your time gazing at the spilled milk. There are other cows to milk
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The gatekeepers are not there to prohibit you anything, they just want to frighten you away, if you are courageous enough to go through them, they will let you , thinking you are the owner or his so
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A perfect work of art is not the one that has no mistakes. It is the one people will like. Creation is not perfect but god is praised for having created it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Success sits on a mountain of mistakes
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Fortune is a goddess that reveals herself only to people who seek her
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Play with the emotions, play with the heart and the animal will surrender to yo
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A willing heart will believe anything and die for anything
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I used to say why save money if I'll die tomorrow, I haven’t died yet and I have nothing to survive on
Bangambiki Habyarimana
In the modern city life, if you don't have money , you simply don't have life.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You don't need a great cathedral for a great marriage. All you need is fate to be on your side
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Husband: a former boyfriend
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure
Bangambiki Habyarimana
One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants
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
Your solution lies not in finding favor before men but before God. Learn to seek Him for your problems and His favor will meet you.
Paul Gitwaza
Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Power hungry=life loving
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor
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
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
I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry
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
Don't ignore your dreams, in them your soul is awake and you are your true self.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
What is life but an ongoing war?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
When something or someone you dearly love is snatched away from you, something of you go with it. You become emotionally amputated
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it.
Bangambiki Habyarimana