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

• We me and husband had been learning about the Khazars, and I had read Michael Chabon's novel Gentlemen of the Road the year before, so all these things are kind of roiling around in my brain, and then I slipped on the ice and I broke my wrist, and it had to be surgically repaired.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Learning
  • Novel
  • Broke

• I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Like
  • Everything
  • Chocolate

• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.

  

  Ann M. Martin
  • Reading
  • Gift
  • Pleasures

• Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society - Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.

  

  Rollo May
  • Helping
  • Persons
  • Leader

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

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Consciousness
  • Vanity
  • Pleasures