Blaise Pascal Quotes
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.Blaise Pascal
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
Manuel Moroun -
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang -
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra -
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Ralph Nader -
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
Jack Dangermond -
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman -
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman -
When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
Laini Taylor -
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
Ursula Burns
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
Ferran Adria -
People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
Walt Handelsman -
I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
Natalie Zea -
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
Barry Silbert -
If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
Jack Kevorkian -
I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
Craig McCracken -
And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.
Kitty Carlisle -
I had never thought of making a western even as I was making it.
Sergio Leone -
My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.
Luke Hemsworth -
May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
Richard L. Evans -
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
Blaise Pascal