Blaise Pascal Quotes

Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

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• If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Interesting
  • Alone
  • Behavior

• The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Feeling
  • Humor
  • Perception

• You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Fashion

• Stay focused on the mission.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Mission
  • Stay
  • Stay Focused

• When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Power

• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Picture

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think

• When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Talent
  • Shopping
  • Random

• I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

• Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• Whether or not technically they have rights under the Geneva Conventions, they have rights in customary international law, and all of us who are either involved as their representatives as their governments or those holding them have obligations.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Law
  • Obligations
  • Customary

• If everything was perfect, it would always be a person-first conversation, but whenever I have the opportunity, I lead with my personality. If they're looking and seeing the disability first or the chair first, I know that I have the ability to change that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect
  • Personality

• You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.

  

  Pam Brown
  • School
  • Mother
  • Painting

• There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the failure of the federal government that has people in this country worried.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Earth

• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Exist
  • Defeat
  • Possibilities

• First, you get really dizzy and you learn that you have to center, to stay in one spot.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Learn
  • Center
  • Dizzy

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Out
  • Indignation

• Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Exist
  • Cease
  • Incomprehensible