Blaise Pascal Quotes

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

Blaise Pascal

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Help
  • Stories
  • Young

• Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Half

• There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

  

  Idris Elba
  • You
  • Mine
  • Networking

• I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Up
  • Men
  • Know

• Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy

• It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • You
  • Nice

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Action
  • Lies

• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Window

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Follow

• I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Important
  • Way
  • Healthy

• Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • You
  • Need
  • Worst

• Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • America
  • Think
  • Hero

• For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Game
  • Political

• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Smart

• I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Everyone, archetypally, is a parent to future generations.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Future
  • Parent
  • Everyone

• Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Love
  • Opinion

• We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • World
  • Light

• The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Opinion
  • Force
  • Ruled