Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.
Quotes to Explore
-
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
-
I can't do anything in moderation.
-
I'm a natural blonde!
-
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
-
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
-
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
-
Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
-
I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.
-
MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.
-
Therein lay the secret to all fads: the herd instinct. People wanted to look like everybody else. That was why they bought white bucks and pedal pushers and bikinis. But someone had to be the first one to wear platform shoes, to bob their hair, and that took the opposite of herd instinct.
-
Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.
-
My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.
-
In a TV show, you are restricted to a lot of things. On television, you can't put the content you can put on web series and on the channels digitally.
-
I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.
-
It's funny how most activists are pacifists.
-
I like 'Pyaar Ka Dard Hai' on Star Plus. It not only has a good story but good actors as well.
-
I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.
-
I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.
-
Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.
-
People don't lack resources, they just lack control over their resources.
-
England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution.
-
Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.
-
I think it's a wonderful fact about Judaism - at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don't have it all figured out. God is unknowable.
-
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.
