Blaise Pascal Quotes

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Blaise Pascal

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• The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Soul
  • Law
  • Balance

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Women
  • Business
  • Man

• As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Opportunity
  • Education
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• I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Think
  • Career
  • You

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Day
  • Brain

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Remorse

• Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Want
  • Me
  • Look

• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Vice

• Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Different
  • Looking

• I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Back
  • Carry
  • Laptop

• A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Strange
  • Analysis
  • Sight

• Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Real
  • Food
  • Healthy

• In dealing with Islamic countries, insist on reciprocation or no deal. If they want to build a mosque or Islamic school in our country, we should be able to build a church and a Christian school in theirs...

  

  Brigitte Gabriel
  • Church
  • Dealing
  • Christian School

• Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

  

  Charley Pride
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Eyes

• Sometimes you want to skate along or just get by or fly under the radar, but sometimes you have to stand up and let your voice be heard and give it your best and give it your all. As a mother of young children, that's something I've tried to emphasize and highlight for them.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life.

  

  Murray Bartlett
  • Questions
  • Would
  • Personally

• Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Justice
  • Resemblance
  • Voluptuousness