Blaise Pascal Quotes
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.Blaise Pascal
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
Kate Bush -
The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
Valerie Plame -
I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
Laura Trott -
I love the hip-hop nation.
Pam Grier -
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas -
If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
Zooey Deschanel
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu -
Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
M.I.A. -
Man is an imagining being.
Gaston Bachelard -
The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
Dalton McGuinty -
Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
Adam Carolla -
I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
Quincy Jones
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The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
Ralph Macchio -
The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya Angelou -
I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
Kevin Kline -
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
Flannery O'Connor -
I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
Patrick deWitt
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Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
William Shakespeare -
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.
Blaise Pascal