Blaise Pascal Quotes

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

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• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Give
  • Target

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Great
  • Direction
  • Eating

• ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Ability
  • Will
  • Attack

• I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Know
  • Model

• I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Music
  • Learning
  • King

• Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • People
  • Voice
  • Television

• Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Great
  • Think
  • Soccer

• As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Structure
  • Task
  • Internal

• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Think

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Death
  • Sentences

• What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Purpose

• The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise a hand again.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Stop
  • Hand
  • Fire

• Everyone said how tormented directors can be. I've never enjoyed something so much in my life!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life

• I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Men
  • Women
  • Waiting

• Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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