Blaise Pascal Quotes
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
Quotes to Explore
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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I had plenty of vices growing up.
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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.
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There's no question that jihad historically means war.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
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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.
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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.
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Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
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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.
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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.
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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
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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.
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Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
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Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
