Blaise Pascal Quotes

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

Blaise Pascal

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• Language does not make one an elite.

  

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• No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.

  

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• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  

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• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

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• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

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• I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

  

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• The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

  

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• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

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• This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

  

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• What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

  

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• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  

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• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

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• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

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• As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

  

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• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  

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• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

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• On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

  

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• Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

  

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• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.

  

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• When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Style