Blaise Pascal Quotes

If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.

Blaise Pascal

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• I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Really

• To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame

• In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • You
  • Will
  • Too Much

• I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Want
  • Years
  • Holiday

• I'm strong. I like to mother people, look after people. I lead the gang.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Mother
  • Strong

• I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • Done
  • May

• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Politics
  • Exist
  • Well

• The Internet is a toilet. It is.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Internet
  • Toilet

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Education
  • Support

• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Value
  • Add

• I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-)

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Good

• Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

  

  Avicenna

• Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel.

  

  Clarence Thomas

• They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.

  

  Livy
  • Men

• In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

  

  Jacques Audiard

• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  

  David Hackett Fischer
  • Grief
  • Greater
  • Opposite

• The biggest win of my career is coming.

  

  Francis Ngannou
  • Career
  • Coming
  • Biggest

• Are animals like car-crashes - Acts of God or mere Accidents - bizarre, tragic, farcical, plotted nowadays into a scenario by an ingenious storyteller, Mr C Darwin?

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • God
  • Car

• If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.

  

  Blaise Pascal