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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... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I've discovered this trend in popular criticism that because our first record was such a -- critical darling ... that now people are hesitant to give us too many accolades. We didn't know exactly how we needed to change. But we knew from the experience from 'Room on Fire' where people, where critics mainly, were saying that it was sonically too similar to the first record, we needed to step up.
Fabrizio Moretti -
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
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