Nikos Kazantzakis Famous Quotes
"Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss"
"What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation."
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.
Nikos Kazantzakis Quotations
"What is it about possessing things Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain."
Jeff Melvoin
Take a second look... It costs you nothing.
Chinese Proverb
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
"There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few."
Janet Erskine Stuart
"Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay."
Millard Fuller
"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back."
Unknown
"Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak."
Dr Laura Schlessinger
"Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go, the later you think you are."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
John Milton
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
Theodore Roosevelt