Blaise Pascal Quotes
This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.Blaise Pascal
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
Sal Mineo -
I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.
Cole Sprouse -
When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.
Joe Cocker -
What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
Daniel Berrigan -
When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.
Andrew Bernstein -
When Russians were having troubles, the Space Shuttle supported the Space Station Mir bringing up much needed supplies and replacements, critical spares, really. That they were able to keep their space station going for much longer than they would have without us. So, I think that shows the value of international cooperation.
Leroy Chiao -
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
Bela Lugosi -
In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.
Bella Abzug -
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Consider the challenge when a steady diet of spinach is on offer.
Kevin Warsh -
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
Beverley Nichols -
Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.
David Deida -
If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.
Chogyam Trungpa -
Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
Douglas Jerrold -
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
Tom Stoppard
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The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
Mahatma Gandhi -
God is disappointed when we don't realize that others are trying too.
Dale G. Renlund -
Everything is energy. It's physics. So I find the science of it all interesting; how 90% of stuff that's in our universe is made of stuff that we can't even measure. I find that fascinating.
Erin Davie -
Tomorrow is Election Day. That's the day we Americans wake up, consider our options, and then remember we didn't register to vote.
Conan O'Brien -
This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.
Blaise Pascal