Alexis Carrel Quotes

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Alexis Carrel

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• I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Team
  • Same
  • Inequality

• It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Dance

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Know
  • Ignorance

• I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Start

• Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Belief
  • Living

• I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Holiness
  • Negotiate

• Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real terms in imports of crude oil and petroleum products.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Real
  • Growth
  • Imports

• We clarified that without a clear abandonment of the path of terror, a recognition of Israel's right to exist in security and peace ... Israel won't have any contact with the Palestinians.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Peace
  • Path
  • Security

• A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Real
  • Character
  • Truth

• The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Mind
  • Experience

• If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Peace

• One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Love
  • Like
  • Compassion

• This bidding is just highlighting the value of assets, ... I increased my target for Disney to $27 in January. If it falls, it'll fall only modestly.

  

  David Joyce
  • Fall
  • Value
  • Disney

• The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Lord
  • Landscape
  • Rings

• I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Friends
  • Make
  • Enemies

• It was the rotten fabric woven by evil, the overnight sham bulwarks of enemies of the people; it would burn to ash at the match of truth.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Truth
  • Evil
  • Enemies

• Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Peace
  • Teach

• It's animal by animal that you save a species.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Animal

• If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.

  

  Allan Nevins
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Painting

• Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

  

  Alexis Carrel
  • Enemies
  • Comforts
  • Syphilis