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

• 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

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

  

  Jack Nance
  • People
  • Guy
  • Strange

• 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

• 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

• I think both sides China and United States should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• His eyes measured the little chamber. How two people could survive in so small a space was as difficult to grasp as the conventions in contract bridge. Perhaps there was some simple key that would solve the problem, and he would have the subject of another book.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Book
  • Small

• People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

  

  Amartya Sen
  • People

• I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

  

  Chris Hayes
  • People
  • Angry

• I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say: 'Well we're not really in love but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Gun
  • Killing

• I swear I want to be a food model.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Food
  • Model

• Never, ever exercise in front of a TV or while reading. You lose 50 percent of the benefit of the exercise by not hearing and feeling your heart rate, your sweat and the pain levels that need to be encountered in fitness training.

  

  Kevin R. Stone
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Reading

• When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Truth

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

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • People
  • Literature
  • Guidance