Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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• Suffering
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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • High
  • Society

• Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Think
  • Idiot
  • Computers

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Poverty
  • Security
  • Living

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Education
  • Tired

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

  

  Kate Adie
  • Danger
  • Fault
  • Adrenalin

• I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Sick

• For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Know
  • Paid
  • Haircut

• It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • True
  • Dream
  • Coming

• Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Dream

• Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Crying

• ... I am a New York designer and the things are made in New York...

  

  Anna Sui

• I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not - how shall I express it? - a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain - I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Long
  • Friend
  • Cool

• Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • People
  • Cool
  • Fire

• Both sides should demand a speedy trial.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

• I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.

  

  Robert James Ritchi

• Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • People
  • Past
  • Sometimes

• in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Suffering