Blaise Pascal Quotes

It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

Blaise Pascal

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• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

  M. H. Abrams
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  • Romantics

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
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• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Talking
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• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Help
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  • Director

• To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Play
  • Minds
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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
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• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Love
  • Food
  • Cooking

• If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Right
  • Now
  • Exist

• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Racism
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• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Life
  • Great
  • Nothing

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
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• I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Way
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• My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

  

  B. B. King
  • Work
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• I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Mood

• God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Time
  • God
  • Love

• I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.

  

  Cristina Henriquez
  • Important
  • Author

• Trying to win five straight is a tough deal up here. Our backs have been against the wall for five weeks.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Game

• Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Style
  • Decision

• I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Soul
  • Decision
  • Philosophers