Kapuscinski Imperium Quotes & Sayings

Our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the daily interest on this loan. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed. — Mark Batterson

A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do. — Bill Bonner

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible. — Jack McDevitt

Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do. — Srividya Srinivasan

Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Nothing else seems out of the ordinary for a horrible haunted forest being inhabited by a child eating witch. — Seanan McGuire

The value of e-commerce is not in the e, but in the commerce. — Octavio Paz

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician. — Damon Albarn

Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny. — Gregory Maguire