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

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• Miseries
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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

• Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Friends
  • Choose
  • Characters

• St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Time
  • Country
  • May

• Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Sun
  • Smile

• 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