Blaise Pascal Quotes

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

Blaise Pascal

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• Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Hope
  • Black

• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• Golf was never a religion to me.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Me
  • Never
  • Religion

• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Word
  • Performance

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Eggs
  • Fresh
  • Farm

• I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Republican
  • Conservative

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Soul

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Earth
  • Color
  • Most

• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Find
  • Fish

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Strength
  • Opposition
  • Grows Out

• I remember saying to someone when I got one of those ‘don’t do it’ [comments] – I just remember hearing my voice being calm and saying, ‘No, it’s going happen. It’s going to happen. I’m just letting you know.’

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Remember
  • Voice
  • Calm

• It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Error

• I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

  

  Don Nickles
  • Independent

• As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • World
  • Different
  • Boy

• All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Different
  • Chance
  • Choose