Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

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

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: March 4, 1932 - January 23, 2007

Topics

ManObstacleDestroyHeHimself

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Jim Wallis

HopeHistoryProcessNonsenseAlways

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

John C. McGinley

EquityOutGotBackstageAudition

Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.

John Ortberg

TrainingGivingHelpYouStarted

Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut.

Robert Downey, Jr.

DressYouLookSometimesWantMore

My mom would always travel with us to everything; my dad introduced us to the weight room and showed us how to properly work out.

Rob Gronkowski

WorkTravelMomEverythingOutRoom

40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.

Misty Copeland

TimeDanceStartThinkRetirement

Our objective in regulation should be to put in place tough enough regulation and capital and liquidity standards that we level the playing field and make it costly.

Janet Yellen

ToughEnoughPlaceStandardsPlaying

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

Constance Baker Motley

FreedomLegalDifferenceSignificant

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

Anthony Kiedis

LifeCoolBetterYouKnowSometimes

We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

WaterGenerationSandAdmitFollow

India was secular even when Muslims hadn't come here and Christians hadn't set foot on this soil. It is not as if India became secular after they came. They came with their own modes of worship, and they, too, were given a place of honor and respect. They had the freedom to worship God as per their wish and inclination.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

GodFreedomRespectHonorWishSoil

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Khaled Hosseini

WaitChoiceWriteSeeTellAnything

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