Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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• The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Gentle
  • Haitian

• I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Important
  • Show

• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Support
  • Working

• I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Fear

• Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I definitely enjoy my time by myself - and that's kind of the weird thing about touring; you're kind of constantly surrounded by people - but I actually do enjoy going out and doing things and being around people.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

  

  Jack Nance
  • People
  • Guy
  • Strange

• People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don't be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Today
  • Corruption

• There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Need
  • Rules

• I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Why
  • Perfect

• Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • People
  • Improvement

• People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The policemen's faces glisten too, they're holding themselves back, they love this, it's a ceremony, they're implementing a policy.

  

  Margaret Atwood

• O hell! to choose love with another's eye.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Hell

• Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

  

  Ken Follett

• After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.

  

  John B. Hood
  • Career
  • Military

• Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • People
  • Literature
  • Guidance