Blaise Pascal Quotes

Law, without force, is impotent.

Blaise Pascal

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• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Money
  • Pain
  • Child

• I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Nature
  • Actor
  • Africa

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Power
  • Guys
  • Fine

• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • Believe
  • True

• As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Long
  • College

• Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Right
  • Hit

• The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • People
  • Strong
  • Faith

• I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Time
  • Discovery
  • Fishing

• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Book
  • House
  • Lost

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Fear
  • Interesting
  • Question

• I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Better
  • Become
  • Hunter

• There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Try

• The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Single
  • Flower
  • Envy

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Character
  • You
  • Either

• Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Trying
  • Sex

• The right of no nation depends upon the date of its birth or the size of its power. As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so-we believe-there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • World
  • Believe
  • Power

• It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Law
  • Satisfied
  • Arbitrary

• Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• Law, without force, is impotent.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Law
  • Force
  • Impotent