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Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.


Blaise Pascal

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If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
BLAISE PASCAL On vanity: The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
BLAISE PASCAL Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will n...
BLAISE PASCAL When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, an...
BLAISE PASCAL Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civili...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason,...
BLAISE PASCAL If (Matthews) had had 20 points, the game would have been completely different.
KRISTEN CAMPOS We've got to see if she'll actually pick up (the game) fast enough.
ANDY BEEN She's probably my biggest scoring threat right now.
ANDY BEEN Even though we're rebuilding, who knows what will pan out. They're enjoying it. I have 26, 27 girls ...
ANDY BEEN I hate to say to the seniors that we're rebuilding. But we are.
ANDY BEEN I am a satisfied man.
HARRY BEEN Our main goal this year is to advance to the regional final.
SHANE BEEN If someone had been holding the line on keeping houses intact, Pleasant Hill would be viewed as a ge...
HOWARD SCOTT Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, th...
BLAISE PASCAL This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world ...
ALICE PAUL And if there had been more of the world, They would have reached it
LUIS DE CAMOES Had she been born 500 years sooner, Raphael would have chosen her as a model for his cherubs. Tendri...
E.L. KONIGSBURG I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsk...
ANDREA BOCELLI I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have...
TOM STOPPARD Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
ALFONSO X In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would hav...
KAREN JOY FOWLER If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to...
EDMUND WHITE The city has been incredibly capable of reinventing itself, with shorter and shorter cycles.
FRANK WRIGHT No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly ...
JOHN BROWN GORDON History has been the history of warfare.
GODFREY REGGIO We might have had the momentum if we could've punched that in. Maybe things would have been differen...
BOB BLICK It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn...
ELLEN BARKIN What Pascal overlo...
WALTER KAUFMANN The thing that hurt us was lack of people. If we had numbers, it would have been a different match.
DAVID KERR I'm the rose within the concrete that simulates the struggle, yet the blossom reveals defeat.
THE WRITTEN FACE Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselve...
ALEX CAMPBELL Our daughter was the victim of assault, and it was a private swim coach. And had he be employed by a...
CAROL THOMPSON Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something th...
SCOTT WEILAND I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different ...
HOLLY HOLM Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.
KIM EDWARDS The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The landscape of this city would have been miserably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon not...
ED RENDELL The landscape of this city would have been measurably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon no...
ED RENDELL I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolin...
EDWARD F. HALIFAX The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else rema...
JOSIAH ROYCE Thus far in our negotiations, the government's idea of what will make the Lewiston victims whole has...
DARIN WRIGHT If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a differe...
GARY CHERONE Had he been in a different era, he would have been the one, and this time he has been able to stand ...
ALAN THOMPSON Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men ...
VAUVENARGUES I assure you, today's outcome would have been dramatically different had we not received those signe...
CARL GOLDBERG I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus fi...
FRANK O'HARA The knee had been bothering me for a while. I tried to play on it (in the playoffs), but it started ...
FAT LEVER If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world...
HEINRICH HEINE If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
HEINRICH HEINE We made three consecutive mistakes on offense that allowed North Allegheny to tie the game. The whol...
JEFF BEAVERS This world would have been much better off had your mother aborted your demon soul.
JEFFREY DAVIS Every road accident in the world today would have been prevented ,if only we would have been 10secon...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the w...
HEINRICH HEINE If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the w...
HEINRICH HEINE Had he lived, what a different world it could have been, his loyalists say. But it's also possible h...
LANCE MORROW 
He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have ...
R.A.LUCAS For Todd to finish where he did shows what a great driver he is. If Todd had started in the first se...
TUFFY LATOUR Of course I wish Asafa had run, ... I think the world record would have been threatened if he was th...
JUSTIN GATLIN The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn ...
HEINRICH HEINE The time would have been faster and the world record would have been threatened. But I still would h...
JUSTIN GATLIN We didn't have anyone else hurt us tonight, but we were our own worst enemy tonight. I thought we pl...
ERIC SITZE If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter
T.S. ELIOT The world would not be in such a snarl,/ had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN Greg and I have always been close, ... but now it's a whole different ballgame.
AMY HALL If we had not have dropped the fly ball it might have been a different story in the first. I would f...
DERRICK LANDRUS We had our chances in the first five minutes to win the game, and we didn't bury them. That whole ga...
NORM GAGNE Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
RALPH ELLISON If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have ...
STROM THURMOND If the contaminated water had been supplied to households, the result would have been unimaginable.
ZHANG LIJUN It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Had it not been for the cry of Nullification, Mr. Calhoun would have been nominated by the Anti-Maso...
DUFF GREEN Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how t...
OSCAR WILDE I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th...
JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world: Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it West...
APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv...
NICKOLE SANDERS We had the opportunities to make some plays, and we didn't make them. If we made them, it would have...
FRANK CIGNETTI If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of playe...
MICHAEL OWEN We missed him, but I don't think the outcome would have been any different.
FRED THOMPSON Had the car seat been installed properly, I?m sure the child would have been fine.
JEANNE COSGROVE If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate M...
DAWN FRENCH The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who ...
TERRY PRATCHETT If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitte...
FRANZ KAFKA If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of...
TOM STOPPARD There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS Once you trigger the sexual harassment then it almost always goes to the authorities. Had it been a ...
CYNTHIA MCNALLY It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been sim...
COURTNEY FORD The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in c...
SCOTT NEARING Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud...
THORNTON WILDER He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
WILLIAM COWPER He would not, with a peremptory tone,Assert the nose upon his face his own.
WILLIAM COWPER I wasn't sure about it. It's tough to say the game would have been different.
PATRICK ALVIN Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the qu...
SHANNON L. ALDER If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would...
G. M. TREVELYAN We would not have been put in this position if it had not been for the actions of Charles Sawyer.
BOB MARSHALL

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BLAISE PASCAL Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous...
BLAISE PASCAL The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL