Blaise Pascal Quotes
When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.Blaise Pascal
Quotes to Explore
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It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
Kevin Spacey -
We are not afraid to be entertainers.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
Chuck Berry -
If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.
Barbara Amiel -
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall.
Nalini Singh -
...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.
Barack Obama
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
Oscar Wilde -
It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.
Cynthia Nixon -
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
Cliff Martinez -
I think they'd be silly not to bring us back.
Brian Krause -
As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.
Aristotle -
We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.
Aristotle
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I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight
Rich Mullins -
People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.
William Faulkner -
It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.
Sufjan Stevens -
Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.
Marianne Williamson -
Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
Anthony Robbins -
When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
Blaise Pascal