Blaise Pascal Quotes

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

Blaise Pascal

• God
• Happy
• Foolish
• Seeking

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• I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

  

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

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• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

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• I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

  

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• Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

  

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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

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• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

  

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• What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?

  

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• There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

  

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• To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

  

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• If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

  

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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

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  • End
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• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  

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• Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

  

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• I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.

  

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• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

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• We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.

  

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• Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

  

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• God knows I tried to make it earlier in life, but with all due respect to myself, nothing I ever did was any good.

  

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• As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

  

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• As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.

  

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• I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

  

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• There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Happy
  • Foolish