Blaise Pascal Quotes

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Blaise Pascal

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• When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Always
  • Place
  • Sail

• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Books

• My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Heart
  • Driven
  • Pure

• If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Acting

• I am not driven.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Driven

• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• I'm not driven by being understood.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Being
  • Understood
  • Driven

• One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Long
  • Nature

• The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Done
  • Business
  • Sad

• You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Community
  • Opinion

• We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership.

  

  David Sze

• I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Path
  • Successful

• What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Success
  • Control
  • Cold

• I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Great
  • Money
  • Crazy

• The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale....

  

  Allen Tate
  • Dark
  • Driven
  • Dusk

• You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Winning
  • Regret
  • Argument

• As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Help
  • Helping
  • Kindness

• A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • Wish
  • Birthday

• Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got And pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; I must be here confined by you, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please: now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Spirit
  • Helping

• Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

  

  George Foreman
  • Done
  • Giving
  • Made

• I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Way
  • Day
  • Hip Hop

• My Real Children starts quietly, then suddenly takes you on two roller-coaster rides at once, swooping dizzily through a double panorama and ending in a sort of super Sophie's Choice. A daring tour de force.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Children
  • Real

• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Driven
  • Sail
  • Sphere