Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

Alanis Morissette

I do feel blessed to be in the public eye so I can share what I believe. But I think it would be extremely disappointing if I were to count on it to provide happiness. I've come to realize that any time I do that, the fulfillment is short-lived at best.

Blake Lively

I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it's going to work out. Because even if other people don't like what you're doing, you're happy because you did what you believed in.

Blake Mycoskie

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Blaise Pascal

The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses. [Fr., Incredules les plus credules. Ils croient les miracle de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Moise.]

Blaise Pascal

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Blaise Pascal

It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous to make too much of his greatness without his vileness. It is still more dangerous to leave him in ignorance of both, but it is most valuable to represent both to him. Man must not be allowed to believe that he is equal either to animals or to angels, nor to be unaware of either, but he must know both.

Blaise Pascal

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

Blaise Pascal

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Blaise Pascal

You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.

Blaise Pascal

All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.

Blaise Pascal

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Blaise Pascal

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

Blaise Pascal

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

Blaise Pascal

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

Blaise Pascal

Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.

Blaise Pascal

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Blaise Pascal

Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.

Blaise Pascal

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

Blaise Pascal

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

Billie Holiday

God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

Billie Jean King

I think it's really important to have portion control. I don't believe in losing weight quickly.

Billie Joe Armstrong

We've been together as a group for a long time so this means a lot… we've done everything ourselves until this point, so thank you to everybody … do everything you f---n' believe in, because this is what it's all about,

Billy Bob Thornton

My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.

Bill James

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

Bill James

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

Bill Hicks

We'll see who believes in me now. I am the Prankster God – I am killing me!

Bill Hicks

I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.

Bill Hicks

I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift.

Bill Hicks

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.

Bill Hicks

I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells...

Bill Hicks

You ever notice that everyone who believes in creationism looks really un-evolved?

Bill Hicks

Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me.".