Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Blaise Pascal

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man ...

Blaise Pascal

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Blaise Pascal

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Blaise Pascal

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

Blaise Pascal

There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God.

Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Blaise Pascal

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

Blaise Pascal

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

Blaise Pascal

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

Billie Jean King

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

Billie Joe Armstrong

You don't mow another man's lawn!

Billie Joe Armstrong

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

Billie Joe Armstrong

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

Billy Bob Thornton

People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know.

Bill James

Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.

Bill Hybels

The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.

Bill Hicks

How many of y'all wondered, like I did, during the LA riots when those people were being pulled out of their trucks and beaten half to death - step on the f***ing gas, man! They're on foot, you're in a truck - I think I see a way out of this.

Bill Hicks

Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'.

John Eldredge

Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.

Ludwig von Mises

The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

Ludwig von Mises

So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal and economic freedom to develop and act in accordance with her inclinations, desires, and economic circumstances—so far it is nothing more than a branch of the great liberal movement, which advocates peaceful and free evolution.

Ludwig von Mises

The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.

Ludwig von Mises

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.

Ludwig von Mises

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

Ludwig von Mises

The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

Chris Evert

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

Chris Evans

Men and women aren't too dissimilar.

Charles Spurgeon

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

Charles Spurgeon

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.