Blaise Pascal Quotes

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Blaise Pascal

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• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Think
  • Films
  • Dear

• Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Think
  • Courage
  • Years

• Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

  

  Mahavira
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Forgiveness

• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Today
  • Struggle
  • Religion

• Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Future
  • Community

• I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • American
  • Hear
  • Scottish

• Tailored jackets with jeans is a great look for all ages. Dress up with a heel and pretty shirt, or just wear a smart T-shirt under the jacket.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Pretty

• We will consider any new resolutions that support the weapons inspectors' work. But we will not support any resolutions that directly or indirectly authorize using force against Iraq

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Work
  • Support
  • Consider

• Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

  

  Vandana Shiva

• In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • She
  • Mother

• I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Ideas

• Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • World
  • Charity
  • Possession

• God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, ... are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Justice
  • Heaven

• There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Music
  • Escape
  • Torture

• Very little sleep. It's been on-going, one thing after another.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Sleep
  • Thing

• Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Escape
  • Regard
  • Extremes