Blaise Pascal Quotes

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

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• People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Coming
  • Miseries

• I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Mathematics

• The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a President of the United States.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • World
  • History
  • Rest

• You don't want to wait for that aged jockey role.

  

  Billy Crystal

• I've enjoyed being a single person, particularly because I'm travelling a lot. It would be hard to maintain a relationship - so I've really not tried.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Relationship
  • Single

• I'm open to whatever people want to call me.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People

• We always have to show our character on the pitch, and I show my feelings.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Character

• I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.

  

  Joel McCrea
  • Guy
  • Horse

• God has been with me in my whole career.

  

  Ronald Isley The Isley Brothers
  • God
  • Career

• Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • Up
  • Time

• In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

  

  Jiah Khan
  • Long

• Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.

  

  John Skipper
  • Today

• I love to see the old heath's withered brakeMingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling,While the old heron from the lonely lakeStarts slow and flaps its melancholy wing

  

  John Clare
  • Lonely

• In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Political
  • Words
  • Needs

• Utopia's quite another land;

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Movement
  • Improvement
  • Land

• People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Betrayal

• The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Missing

• Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it

  

  Cheikh Anta Diop
  • Past
  • Study
  • Lessons

• I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

  

  Richard Russo
  • People
  • Should
  • Anything

• So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.

  

  William Barclay
  • Long
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Walking
  • Adders

• All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Miseries
  • Derive
  • Quiet Room