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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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Great
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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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Process

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

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
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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.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
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  • Think
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• I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.

  

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

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Running

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

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Truth
  • Eyes
  • Picture

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

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

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• 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?

  

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

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Prison

• 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.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Society
  • Young
  • Will

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Die
  • End
  • Civilization

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

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Life
  • Real
  • Anger

• 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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  • Grateful

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

  

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• I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Choices
  • Result

• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Moment

• Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Period

• 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