Blaise Pascal Quotes
We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.
Blaise Pascal
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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
I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.
Chloe Sevigny
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
Bruce Jackson
With three younger brothers, we were always very competitive and combative. But my mother always says I get the drive from her.
Kelita Zupancic
When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed.
Christina Aguilera
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
Hannah Arendt
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
William Morris
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Kara Goucher
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.
Walker Evans
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.
Blaise Pascal