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
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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
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• 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

• The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Journey
  • Path
  • Surprise

• I think it all comes down to fundamentals. This is not a time to start forgetting things. It will be a matter of inches and seconds that will win the championship. You work hard all year to get to this point, and you have to be able to sustain. You can only escape for so long.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • I Think
  • Escape
  • Championship

• The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Escape
  • Abyss
  • Look At

• I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Moments

• Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Reason

• 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