Alekian Quotes & Sayings

Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents - Adam and Eve. They labored together; they had children together; they prayed together; and they taught their children the gospel together. This is the pattern God would have all righteous men and women imitate. — Ezra Taft Benson

If I could remember their singing and write down the notes, no man who read that score would ever grow sick or old. — C.S. Lewis

A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary processes, but is, by virtue of interrelationships and of higher and lower levels of control, an unbroken unity. When research, in the efforts of bringing understanding, as a rule examines isolated processes and studies them, these must of necessity be removed from their context. In general, viewed biologically, this experimental separation involves a sacrifice. In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order. — Walter Rudolf Hess

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write. — Edward Augustus Freeman

But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. — Saadi

What Cathy took from her rejection experience was self-doubt. Until this current traumatic hospitalization, Cathy hadn't realized the fear she was carrying around, how burdened she was by it, and how that fear kept her in a mode where she had to continuously prove her value to others and herself. — Robert Kegan

You don't so much sleep as borrow eight hours from death. — Neal Shusterman

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career. — John Waters

I was amazed at the rosy glow that can be around one when you're in a film that's done well. — Embeth Davidtz

As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings. — John McAfee

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. — Eli Siegel