Blaise Pascal Quotes

FEU. Dieu d'Abraham, Dieu d'Isaac, Dieu de Jacob, non des philosophes et savants. Certitude. Certitude. Sentiment. Joie. Paix.

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• Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Why
  • Home
  • Dying

• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Risk
  • Jump
  • Greatest

• I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Audience

• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Night
  • Day
  • Fool

• I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Great
  • Me
  • Drama

• That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but 'Mulan' is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it's so important for young girls to have.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Action
  • Fall

• The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • College

• I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Good
  • May
  • Freedom

• I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Believe
  • Enough
  • Understand

• I concentrate on doing good projects.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Doing Good

• We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Commitment

• You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Person
  • Write
  • Pencil

• Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Important
  • Marketing
  • Mouth

• To be human means to feel inferior.

  

  Alfred Adler

• I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads.

  

  Jimmy Johnson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Team

• ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

  

  Don Nickles
  • Great
  • Future
  • Political

• According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?

  

  Daniel J. Mitchell
  • Slaves
  • Tax Foundation
  • Family's Budget

• FEU. Dieu d'Abraham, Dieu d'Isaac, Dieu de Jacob, non des philosophes et savants. Certitude. Certitude. Sentiment. Joie. Paix.

  

  Blaise Pascal