Growth Quote by Ryszard Kapuściński

“Unfortunately, the monarch's satisfaction is not to last long. Development is a treacherous river, as everyone who plunges into its currents knows. On the…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be…

— James A. Baldwin

Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world (from where?), space is by far the…

— Stanislaw Lem

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for…

— Joseph Conrad

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No…

— Colin Flaherty

Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one…

— Margo Jefferson

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but…

— Michel de Montaigne

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

— Danielle Trussoni

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

— Peter MacKay

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing…

— C. S. Lewis

Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley