Blaise Pascal Quotes

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

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• The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Work
  • Real
  • War

• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Wife
  • Ideas
  • Nothing

• Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Family
  • Small

• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Man
  • WIld

• I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Hate
  • Religion
  • Easy

• My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Perception
  • Mystery

• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Star

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Up
  • Child
  • Young

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• The law is cruel.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Cruel

• I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Parents
  • Problem
  • Same

• There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Death
  • Best

• I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Golf
  • Run
  • Liverpool

• When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Choose

• When I eat better, I perform better.

  

  Kathryn McCormick

• If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary to make that dream a reality. We can be extremely proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our Nation and our way of life endure. We are free.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Free

• The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wealth
  • Industry
  • State

• To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

  

  Katy Butler
  • Better
  • To Do

• For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Grace
  • Image
  • Miracles