Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: February 18, 1883 - October 26, 1957

Topics

EyesDarknessBrainyEnlightenment

My job is to go out there and play. I mean, I guess you could guess who I would rather play for. We're not going to sit here and say that that's a huge secret. I mean, whoever they decided to bring in, my job was to help them win to the best of my ability.

Jimmy Butler

BestJobWinHelpYouPlay

I think everyone to a certain degree wants to be accepted.

Meaghan Jette Martin

ThinkEveryoneDegreeAcceptedWants

In the end, being the writer on set is a bit like having organised a big party, but you're not allowed to eat or drink anything. You just have to stand in the corner.

John Niven

EndStandYouPartyDrinkEat

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

Jeff Duncan

PowerWashingtonQuestThirstVery

It was nearly midnight on the night of February 26, 1806, and Alexandre Dumas, the future author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'The Three Musketeers,' was asleep at his uncle's house. He was not yet four years old. He was staying there because his father was gravely ill, and his mother thought it best for him not to be at home.

Tom Reiss

FatherMotherHomeFutureBest

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

PositiveEducationWomenHealthCare

If I change in any way, I'm not going to be the same player.

Diego Costa

ChangeWaySameGoingPlayerAny

My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

Christopher Durang

GodReligionFeelProblemYouGo

It's not lost on me that every single person who told their story about Harvey Weinstein talked about how they were silenced, how they were encouraged not to speak up, how they were embarrassed or ashamed to speak up.

Alicia Garza

MeSpeakStoryPersonLostSingle

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.

Nita Ambani

LifeGirlFightPeopleHandsFind

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Noam Chomsky

LeadershipWarDrivingTryingDeceit

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

Kenneth R. Miller

ScienceOverWithinControversyCore

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