Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Everyone looks so much better when they smile.

Jimmy Fallon

SmileBetterLooksEveryoneMuch

I don't smile or talk before 10 A.M. unless it's scripted.

Melanie Scrofano

SmileTalkBeforeUnlessScripted

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

Robert Smithson

NobodyAbstractionZeroEverybody

The only woman I have played in my career was my wife and I beat her easily! But she wasn't much good.

John Higgins

GoodWifeWomanCareerSheBeat

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

Robert Kiyosaki

TodayPeopleNiceBuyBigInflation

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Robert H. Schuller

GodCreativeWritingThinkingCareer

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Roy Ayers

MusicStylePeoplePlayJazzListen

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

Jason Alexander

LearningSonSchoolSeeingI Can

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.

Chris Hardwick

AgeWaterNightGoNewProtect

It's time for Republicans to rally behind this campaign in order to put forth the best candidate to stop Hillary Clinton in November. I am confident Ted Cruz is that person, and I'm thrilled to endorse him for president.

Cory Gardner

TimeBestI AmConfidentPersonHim

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

Boz Scaggs

MusicParentsLoversAroundWere

If you can sing to a room of 60 people who don't give a damn, then if, someday, you're playing to people who really want to hear your music, that's not hard.

Ashley McBryde

MusicPeopleYouWantDamnHard

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