Blaise Pascal Quotes

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

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• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Way
  • Advice
  • Shopping

• My interests are not really with television, per se.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Television
  • Interests
  • Per

• I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Like
  • Sound

• Material interests are not the only guiding light.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Light
  • Interests
  • Material

• To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Way
  • Attention
  • Books

• There's no question that jihad historically means war.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • War
  • Question
  • Means

• The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Public
  • Interests
  • Chairman

• You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Think
  • End
  • Means

• Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Power
  • Exercise

• To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Means
  • Expand
  • Innovate

• As I said before, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and that means that Pennsylvania did not have jurisdiction over the contract of marriage that occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Marriage
  • Means
  • Vegas

• If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • America
  • Bad
  • Fall

• Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Christ

• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Important
  • Done
  • Purpose

• When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

  

  Edvard Grieg
  • Friends
  • Means
  • Course

• Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Die
  • Means
  • Suppose

• Bibi wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Destroy
  • Interests
  • Bibi

• Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Country
  • Environment
  • Interests

• Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Feathers

• I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know a lot of national anthems are that way, too - all kinds of military jargon, and the land - there's only one phrase 'the land of the free,' which is kind of nice, and 'the home of the brave?' I don't know....Are we the only ones who are brave on the planet? I mean, all the brave people live here I mean, it's just stupid, I think. I'm embarrassed, I'm embarrassed every time I hear it.

  

  Bill Press
  • Brave
  • Embarrassed
  • Jargon

• Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.

  

  Charles Frankel
  • Government
  • Happens

• I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Passion
  • Cook
  • Recipe

• Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Means
  • Interests
  • Dazzling