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

• I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Hate

• Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them.

  

  Harry Crews
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Writers

• I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Children
  • Age
  • Parents

• To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Teach

• Trying to trade during a losing streak is emotionally devastating. Trying to play 'catch up' is lethal.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Play
  • Losing
  • Trade

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

  

  Blaise Pascal