Blaise Pascal Quotes

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

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• Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Greatness
  • Drinking
  • Vices

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

  

  M. Ward
  • Love
  • Like
  • Sound

• I had plenty of vices growing up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• 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

• 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
  • Innovate
  • Expand

• 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

• You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Virtue

• You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Means

• If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Walking
  • Directors

• 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

• The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Power
  • Quality
  • Principles

• Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Different
  • Vices
  • Vice versa

• Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

  

  Daniel N. Robinson
  • Means
  • Extremes
  • Moderation

• 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

• From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Search
  • Rules
  • Advantage

• I call God ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office) . It's much more satisfying to call it that. A lot of people accept this and they don't know that they're just talking about God. I finally found a God that was big enough. As the astronomer said to the Minister, My God's astronomical. The Minister said, How can you relate to something so big? The astronomer said, Well, that isn't the problem, your God's too small!

  

  John Lilly
  • People
  • Earth
  • Religion

• Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Means
  • Vices
  • Trunk