Blaise Pascal Quotes

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

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• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

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• For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

  

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• I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

  

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• A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

  

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• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  

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• I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'

  

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• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  

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• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

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• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

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• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

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• 'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

  

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• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

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• I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

  

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• A lot of what Trinidad is about is the feeling of the place, the atmosphere of the place, particularly at night, and the mystery of the forest.

  

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• I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours pass. Reflectors and lights are added, footprints are smoothed away, so that there are no telltale clues as the day wears on. When the shot is finished and the plugs are pulled, time seems to leap forward in a matter of seconds. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

  

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• God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

  

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• It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Religion
  • Disposes