Blaise Pascal Quotes

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

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• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • You
  • Give

• No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Book
  • Enjoy
  • Comedians

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Information

• If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fail
  • Chemistry
  • Were

• I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Gowns

• The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Neighbors
  • Equally
  • Injunction

• A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Too Much

• If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Home
  • Game
  • Play

• With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

  

  Parker Posey
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • World
  • Model
  • Economy

• If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Why

• I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Music
  • Career
  • No Idea

• Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Picture

• As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • Future
  • Earth

• Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

  

  Riccardo Muti
  • People
  • Audience
  • Interpretation

• ...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.

  

  Carl Gustav Hempel
  • Body
  • Property
  • Mathematical

• Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Courage
  • Moment
  • Troubles

• The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Wisdom

• All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knowing
  • Room
  • Troubles