Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

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• I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Work
  • Why
  • Kids

• In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Heart
  • Best
  • motivation

• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Desire
  • Government
  • Progress

• If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Film

• The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Age

• Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Parents
  • Support

• I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Name

• You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Government
  • Doing

• Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Free
  • Day
  • Fighting

• Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Myself
  • Grief
  • Loss

• Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Literature
  • Say

• There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Right
  • Wait

• I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Young
  • Looking
  • Portfolio

• In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Day
  • Leader

• Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • May
  • Cool

• Equality for women is progress for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Progress
  • Equality

• When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Real
  • Home
  • Baby

• Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

  

  John Ruskin
  • Music
  • God
  • Learn

• Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Impact
  • Addiction
  • Often

• I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Fashion
  • New
  • New York

• Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Health
  • Exercise
  • Walk

• I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Jokester
  • Prankster

• As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

  

  Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Walk
  • Stream
  • Descendants