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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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
I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
Marlo Thomas
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
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
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
M. Night Shyamalan
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
What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
Rudyard Kipling