Blaise Pascal Quotes

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

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• When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.

  

  Washed Out
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Singing

• We're a nation of immigrants.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Nation
  • Immigrants

• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Own
  • Office
  • My Own

• After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Camera

• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cutting
  • Debate
  • Off

• Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • World
  • Way
  • Gymnastics

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• I definitely care about what I look like, certainly when I am going out in public, doing an appearance or something, but when I'm home, I'm all sweatpants, all the time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Look
  • Public

• I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Blessed
  • Grateful

• My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Hair
  • Being
  • Blonde

• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Water
  • Red
  • Japanese

• Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Whole

• I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

  

  Anita Ekberg
  • Development
  • Bigger
  • Fatness

• This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.

  

  Nahmanides
  • Purpose

• You called me on the phone, saying you were alone,

  

  Kevin Madison
  • Alone
  • Mom
  • Lying

• I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Existence

• I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov

• You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Dies
  • Edges

• We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Machines
  • Plug
  • Diskette

• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Stupid
  • Better
  • Intelligent

• The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Consciousness
  • Vanity
  • Pleasures