Blaise Pascal Quotes

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

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• I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Know

• God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
  • Mistake

• The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Exercise

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Road
  • First
  • River

• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Rock

• From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
  • Differences

• I wasn't a great debater.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Great

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Baseball
  • Repeat
  • Axiom

• Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Growth

• You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Watching
  • Washington

• I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

  

  Vanna White
  • People
  • Think
  • See

• We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Stars
  • Become
  • Australia

• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Voice
  • Lucky
  • Rhythm

• You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fear

• I play Xbox in my underwear.

  

  Mark Salling

• Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Words
  • Lasts
  • Courses

• I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Believe
  • Single

• When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Done
  • Bad

• The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Words
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