Blaise Pascal Quotes

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

Blaise Pascal

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• I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Moment

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • You
  • Government
  • Security

• I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Women
  • Woman
  • English

• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Friends
  • House
  • Liberty

• When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • School
  • Money
  • Job

• I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Project

• Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Business
  • Respect
  • Fashion

• Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Society

• Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Proud
  • Australians
  • Aussie

• We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Want
  • Give

• I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Control

• Artists need to express.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Need
  • Artists
  • Express

• I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Cool
  • Whole
  • Got

• A lot of people come from small towns, and they come here wondering 'Can I really make it in Hollywood?' When I went to L.A., I knew I was going to make it. There's no doubt about it. Why? Because I'm from Chicago!

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • People
  • Why
  • Small

• We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Live
  • American
  • Society

• When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Children
  • Kids

• I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human. But, I'm man enough to face 'em today. What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb. But, the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of that gun. Because I'd have killed them. Shit, I'd have shot Kim and them both. It's my life, I'd like to welcome you all to 'The Eminem Show'.

  

  Eminem
  • Life
  • Today
  • Doubt

• Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.

  

  Ian Kershaw

• Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Habit
  • Destroys
  • Second Nature