Blaise Pascal Quotes
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.Blaise Pascal
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
Aaron Swartz -
Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
Patrick McGoohan -
To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
Fat Joe -
My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
Kailash Kher -
I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
Olivia Colman -
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
Madeleine L'Engle -
I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
Zooey Deschanel -
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
Tamora Pierce -
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
Mahmoud Abbas -
Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
Young Buck -
I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Gary Weiss
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
Beatrice Webb -
It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
Ed Sheeran -
People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
Ban Ki-moon -
I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
Irwin Shaw -
If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.
Dan Webster
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
Oscar Wilde -
Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
Denis Waitley -
I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
Doug Aitken -
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
James Freeman Clarke -
I love being in my 40s.
Laura Dern -
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
Blaise Pascal