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

  

  Mahavira
  • Love
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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

• . . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • Order

• A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Future
  • Humanity
  • Survive

• Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us. They can try like hell to put it out, but as long as we know in our minds who we are meant to be, they will never stand a chance.

  

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• And understood that rage could be quiet. Could be soft. Rage didn’t have to be a killer.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Understood
  • Rage
  • Killer

• I think I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, Molly mine. And when I look at you, that’s all I’m ever going to see, the woman I love. It doesn’t matter if you’re perfect. To me, you will be, and that’s all that counts. It’ll be that way always. Even years from now, when you’re old and withered, I’ll see you with my heart, not my eyes. That’s just the way it is when you love someone. The imperfections don’t exist. If you see them at all, you think they’re beautiful.

  

  Catherine Anderson
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• 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