Kiswahili Quotes & Sayings

I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him. — Forest Whitaker

The people come to Jesus, not because they recognized his dignity and function but because it is rumored that a miracle worker has come in their midst. Jesus had come to preach repentance and the nearness of the kingdom but the people think only of relief from pain and affliction. — William L. Lane

the more money i gained, the more people came to support, the more people came to support, the more power i became. — Sunil Duggal

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor. — Ray Winstone

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty. — Lee Child

Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence. — Brian Tracy

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime. — Daniel Pennac

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief. — Vittorio Alfieri

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues. — Christopher Columbus

A nation that kills its own children has no future. — Pope John Paul II

Expressions to designate homosexuality exist in some fifty (Sub-Saharan) African languages - gor-jigeen in Wolof, ngochani in Shona, Hasini in Nandi, 'yan daudu in Hausa, mashoga ("passive" homosexual), mabasha ("virile" partner) in Kiswahili. [They refer] to ancestral practices in "traditional", that is pre-industrial, societies [...]. — Chantal Zabus

What is the hidden influence behind the press, behind all the sub-versive movements going on around us? Are there several Powers at work? Or is there one Power, one invisible group directing all the rest - the circle of the real Initiates? - Nesta Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, London, Boswell, 1924, p. 348 — Umberto Eco