Yahya Jammeh Quotes
My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.

Quotes to Explore
-
I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
-
I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
-
I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
-
I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
-
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
-
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
-
I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
-
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
-
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
-
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
-
I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
-
In life go straight and turn right.
-
I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
-
For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
-
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
-
I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
-
I believe that everything has a shelf life.
-
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
-
The good news is the Republicans have started to say the right things about net neutrality. The bad news is we're not particularly close on what a bill would look like.
-
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
-
A substance showing resonance between two or more valence-bond structures does not contain molecules with the configurations and properties usually associated with these structures.
-
Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.
-
My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.