Blaise Pascal Quotes

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

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• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Like
  • Step
  • Napoleon

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Hope

• The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Importance

• It's creepy to see fan sites about me.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Me
  • See
  • Fan

• I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Know
  • City
  • Write

• Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Creative
  • Jazz
  • Dialogue

• When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Music
  • You
  • Connection

• I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them.

  

  Marilyn Minter
  • She

• If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• It is important for us to understand that the way we are perceived in the world is going to make a difference, in terms of our capacity to get cooperation and root out terrorism. And one of the things that I intend to do as president is to restore America's standing in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Important
  • America

• Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.

  

  Tzipi Livni
  • Real
  • Israel
  • Operation

• If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • World
  • Money
  • Art

• Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Patience
  • Source
  • Treasures

• The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Kind
  • Existence

• A negative is never finished.

  

  Sigmar Polke
  • Negative
  • Finished

• All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Room
  • Cause
  • Human Evil