Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

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• One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Writing
  • Change
  • Fashion

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • People
  • Trying
  • Home

• I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Myself
  • Discipline
  • Try

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Christmas

• You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Question
  • Hero
  • Irish

• We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.

  

  Eknath Easwaran
  • Joy

• Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Society

• I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.

  

  Linford Christie

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Money
  • Spiritual
  • Military

• In Mumbai, I found, people practiced a showy, demonstrative kind of love, one unafraid of affection or emotion.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • People

• I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

  

  Megan Fox

• The chaos in our world may have brought you close to despair, but if you are willing to look at reasons for hope, perhaps you are ready for the 'Aquarian Conspiracy.'

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • World
  • May
  • Hope

• In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.

  

  John Dobbin
  • Time
  • Question
  • Ignore

• Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Spirit
  • Virtue

• The book of Revelation is a book of worship that summons us to recognize the awesome majesty of our Lord.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Book
  • Lord
  • Recognize

• There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

  

  Leland Stanford

• Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Trust

• When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Obstacles
  • Destroy