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.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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• 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.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

• I can't do anything in moderation.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Anything
  • Moderation

• I'm a natural blonde!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Natural
  • Blonde

• Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Long
  • You
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Money
  • Done
  • True

• Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • God
  • Faith
  • Support

• I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Space
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Connie Willis
  • People
  • Why
  • Hair

• Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Work
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• 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.

  

  Karishma Tanna

• I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

  

  Jemima West
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

  

  Craig Bruce
  • Funny

• I like 'Pyaar Ka Dard Hai' on Star Plus. It not only has a good story but good actors as well.

  

  Pratyusha Banerjee
  • Good
  • Star

• I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

  

  Neal Schon
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Health

• Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

  

  Dwight Gooden

• If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

  

  Miranda July
  • Life
  • Want
  • Things

• Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity, but needing to touch all the living as well.

  

  Don McLean
  • Philosophy
  • Creation
  • Negativity

• The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Success
  • Always
  • Policy

• My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Dad
  • Perfect
  • Famous

• Theres a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • People
  • Lying
  • Flawed

• 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.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Revolution