Alexis Carrel Quotes

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Alexis Carrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 28, 1873 - November 5, 1944

Topics

ManSufferingWithoutMarbleCannot

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

Matt Lucas

DepressionYourselfMeBusyYou

I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.

Skrillex

PeopleMeTalkingBeingLikeAbout

If you can't see it, you can't be it.

Troy Carter

YouSee

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

Treat Williams

CollegeSillyAccomplishWantKids

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.

Tom Lenk

FamilySchoolPeopleMeHigh School

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Mason Cooley

CowMayOnlyIdeaRepresentKnows

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

Martin Van Buren

PeaceHonorCountryPreservationOur

There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.

Martina Navratilova

DanceStepForwardPartyEveryone

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.

Cindy Sheehan

WaterFoodPeacePeopleSaying

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Arnold Bennett

ViewDownGoHillTopUp

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Annie Dillard

LifeWorkLossRememberGoAgainst

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

Ashley Judd

MeThinkDreamPersonalWithinRole

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