Blaise Pascal Quotes
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.Blaise Pascal
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick deWitt -
I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
Olivia Williams -
I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
Naomi Benaron -
Before I had my first child, I never really looked forward in anticipation to the future. As I watched my son grow and learn, I began to imagine the world this generation of children would live in. I thought of the children they would have, and of their children. I felt connected to life both before my time and beyond it. Children are our link to future generations that we will never see.
Louise Hart -
No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.
George Benson -
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
Hans Kung
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
A.M. Homes -
I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
Tom Holt -
Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.
Joanne Rowling -
In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.
Ursula Hegi -
Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.
Bahá'u'lláh
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
Virginia Woolf -
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Euripides -
In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.
Nneka -
The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.
Vincente Minnelli -
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Oscar Wilde -
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
Blaise Pascal