Blaise Pascal Quotes

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

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• When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Character
  • Words

• Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Life
  • Anger
  • Room

• These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Power
  • Words
  • Government

• 'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Fire

• There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Culture
  • Words
  • Amazing

• The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

  

  Enrique Iglesias
  • Music
  • Power
  • Strong

• It was on a trip to Africa with my family - I was eight - and an angry baboon jumped through the window of our parked car. As my siblings escaped, my foot got stuck in the seat. I froze and watched it steal the whole contents of our car around me.

  

  Cressida Bonas
  • Family
  • Car
  • Angry

• What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Education
  • Quality

• Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • People

• This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Congress
  • Solution
  • First Step

• Every little boy wanna pick up the mic, And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype. But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike, Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Up
  • Live
  • Real

• It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Complex
  • Attacks
  • Slogans

• We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Way
  • Serious
  • English

• If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Up
  • Ifs

• The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Prayer

• Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

  

  Scott Joplin
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Indication

• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Lifetime
  • Seeker

• Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Live
  • Solitude

• The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Human
  • Beings

• We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Falsehood
  • Disguise
  • Conceal