Blaise Pascal Quotes

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Blaise Pascal

• Distraction
• Miseries
• Consoles

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• I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Great men always pay deference to greater.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • School
  • House

• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Find

• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Think
  • Single

• I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Guy

• Your role as a founder changes dramatically once your team hits 10, 20, 50, 100, and so on. Sometimes you forget how big you've grown and continue to act as if you're still 10 people.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • People
  • Team

• We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • America
  • Strong

• I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Great
  • Senior

• Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for the mind-altering glimpse at the future in 'Star Wars.'

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Movie

• It's really special to play with your friends for your country.

  

  Christen Press
  • Country
  • Friends

• Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

  

  Bob Woodward

• The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

  

  Christian Dior
  • Important

• Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • Breakfast

• I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • She

• As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Persons

• The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Message
  • Careful
  • Spam

• I bet when Eldest posed for his portrait, he was reveling in the one thing I can’t stand about life aboard the ship: the perfect evenness of everything.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Portrait

• Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Pride
  • Faults
  • Possession

• The first thing I'd say is stop paying such attention to Trump's tweets. They're a total distraction. I think we should instead be carefully watching the actions of groups like Freedom Partners, Chamber of Commerce, the Koch's big donor operation. The Club for Growth is another part of this, and Americans for Prosperity on the ground.

  

  Nancy MacLean
  • Attention
  • Part
  • Distraction

• Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

  

  Norah Vincent
  • Prayer
  • Competition
  • Distraction

• Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Distraction
  • Miseries
  • Consoles