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

• No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Life
  • Means
  • Lunatic asylum

• Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.

  

  Susanna Moore
  • Rules
  • Means
  • Female

• I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Country
  • History
  • Negative

• I'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Person
  • Jew

• Each of my characters comes from somewhere, and where they come from, good or bad, has a large part in forming who they are, and who they can become.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Characters
  • Comes
  • Somewhere

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

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Means
  • Interests
  • Dazzling