Ondjaki Portugues Quotes

Evil is a double-edged sword, if you use it you'll end up cutting you ~ Miguel El Portugues

If you throw stones on my way to stumble and I fall, you try to put extra care when passing my way, lest you stumble and fall. ~ Miguel El Portugues

The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul. ~ Ondjaki

What is love?, love is you and those who choose to stick with you ~ Miguel El Portugues

Always there whom we believe shouldn't be and never are there whom we believe should be. ~ Miguel El Portugues

Those who has troubles are feeding them and those who hasn't troubles are looking for them ~ Miguel El Portugues

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me ~ Miguel El Portugues

Nothing by chance, nothing is random, nothing is in vain, nothing is trivial ~ Miguel El Portugues

If you undertake projects in mind, never leave for tomorrow. ~ Miguel El Portugues

Any failure we could suffer throughout our lives, will turn into little successes if we take the right path, keep walking. ~ Miguel El Portugues

Jesus soon is coming,
and Christmas too,
Good reason for being happy,
Helping people to do. ~ Miguel El Portugues

A judge who doesn't feel empathy for the accused, becomes executioner ~ Miguel El Portugues

The multitude was a frothing octopus, pulsating anthropomorphically over the church steps. ~ Ondjaki

Don't underestimate the poor, because his soul treasures to Phoenix of Wits ~ Miguel El Portugues

A great leader must always keep in mind the golden rule: respect for their subordinates.
Tribute to Noah Sealth. ~ Miguel El Portugues

Seduction is an art that is tested in the mirror ~ Miguel El Portugues

The best tactic against evil isn't confront with him, otherwise is to get away from him ~ Miguel El Portugues

If you force me to pay a debt that is not mine, let me thank you in the afterlife ~ Miguel El Portugues

Whom boasts about his happiness, cause doesn't got it! ~ Miguel El Portugues

The sea has testified that Africa and Europe have kissed ~ Miguel El Portugues

The main objective of a whole person is to serve ~ Miguel El Portugues

If you suffer an attack your best ally is to keep calm. ~ Miguel El Portugues

To stop a habit or a vice seeks freedom in yourself ~ Miguel El Portugues

Politicians are judged by what they say and they don't do ~ Miguel El Portugues

If you are my flower and I your water,
you'll be with me always watered ~ Miguel El Portugues

Choose with whom to be accompanied it's your free choice, choose with whom not to be accompanied it's your right. ~ Miguel El Portugues

Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy. ~ Miguel El Portugues

Give me freedom to think and I'll give you my life. ~ Miguel El Portugues

Wait, don't despair,
Have faith and hopeful,
Who wait and don't despair,
The reward awaits. ~ Miguel El Portugues

The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain. ~ Ondjaki

The night was so balmy that breathing ceased to be a habitual sensation, becoming much closer to something like the gaseous ingestion of a mango, the velvet caress of a hand or the soft skin of a fresh peach. Sleeping, lying down or sitting up, was, on that night, a divine human penitence, a miracle unexpected and unrealized, intuitive and peaceful in a unique opportunity. ~ Ondjaki

It's better to have nothing and have everything than if you have everything with nothing ~ Miguel El Portugues

After daybreak is when I will already have died. At that moment I will only know of beautiful things: the certainties, the desires. When the sun bathes me, I will be something else: without mirrors, without sadness. I will have passed away, but will have been reborn. I will whistle mellifluous melodies. Discredited but, in the end, light. ~ Ondjaki

It was normal for it to rain, but in October- who could forget the rains of October?- now this disturbingly silent rain was falling. That was so nebulous that it was pretty; that, if it had not been wet, no one would have believed it was raining; that was so slow that it was possible to follow its fall with one's eyes. That which villagers called 'the rains of October' was the accumulation of the serenity of such a life. Eyes almost broke into tears on looking at the sun subdividing itself, at the end of the afternoon, in each drop of that snail's-pace precipitation, as if the great star had dissolved each day an infinitesimal bit more. ~ Ondjaki

The reasoning should always be based on solid foundations ~ Miguel El Portugues

Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do ~ Miguel El Portugues

In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them ~ Miguel El Portugues