Blaise Pascal Quotes

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

['March'] is a path you must take if you want to move from one point to another point. If you want to make it down this very long and troublesome road, follow this path. Follow this message. Follow this map. And you will get there some day.

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

The current is with us.

A man has as much right to go across a river as to go up and down the river.

Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same.

You will move in the direction you are facing.

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!

By walking, I found out where I was going.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

A leader can't move a country that's not ready. You can't make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.