Kapuscinski The Emperor Quotes & Sayings

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. — George Mason

...every day we fill up with anxiety just makes life much harder than it needs to be." Those are words I need tattooed to my forehead! — John I. Snyder

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular. — Sam Waterston

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored. — Gerry Spence

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste. — Alexander McQueen

You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to. — Jodi Picoult

Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance. — Eric Weiner

If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers. — Anna Julia Cooper