Blaise Pascal Quotes

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy.

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• I feel like we all have our skeletons.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Live
  • Write

• Sharing is the essence of social media.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Sharing

• Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Future
  • Freedom
  • Growing

• With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Hope
  • Own
  • Pictures

• Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Death
  • Space
  • Dead

• I have been vain since birth.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Birth
  • Been
  • Vain

• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • You
  • Insanity

• He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Why
  • Daily

• Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form. Fish which live at great depths have no eyes. The elephant has a trunk. The chameleon changes its color, and so forth.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • People
  • Band

• It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Friends
  • Red

• Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

  

  David Mamet
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Fun

• Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Words
  • Deception

• I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rest

• I am Sam. Sam-I-Am.

  

  Dr. Seuss

• Oswald Cabal: Little animals. And if we’re no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness, and live, and suffer, and pass, mattering no more than all the other animals do or have done. It is this, or that. All the universe or nothing. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Live
  • Done
  • Universe

• And it feels like, finally.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feels Like

• The Hulk has an awesome superpower. He turns into this giant monster that can eliminate several dudes at once.

  

  Ty Simpkins
  • Awesome
  • Monster

• What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Monster
  • Prodigy
  • Chimera