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

• It’s time for a streaming service that is centred around and driven by the artist community directly. Artists are prolific beyond a new recording every two years. They perform, tour, record, and collaborate constantly. Uprise.fm will not only make these rare and unique recordings available, we will ensure that the artists are fairly compensated for this work.

  

  Daniel Lanois
  • Community
  • Artist
  • Unique

• There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Character
  • Needs
  • Rulers

• In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I'd be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

  

  Lando Norris
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Teammate

• It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Purpose
  • Struggle
  • Convinced

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

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Driven
  • Sail
  • Sphere