Blaise Pascal Quotes
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
Quotes to Explore
-
Justice is never given; it is exacted.
-
I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
-
I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
-
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
-
Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
-
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
-
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
-
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
-
Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
-
Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
-
I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
-
The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
-
From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.
-
I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.
-
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
-
Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
-
Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.
-
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
-
Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.
-
We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
-
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-
You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what you're gonna do or what you can do. The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift-that's why they call it the present.
-
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
