Blaise Pascal Quotes

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Blaise Pascal

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• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Good
  • Way
  • Sheep

• You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Matter

• Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • People
  • Great
  • Perfect

• I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.

  

  Yasser Arafat

• The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Together

• We did nothing but breathe life into this team, that's all we did.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Life
  • Team
  • Breathe

• The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • People
  • Frustration
  • Medication

• I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • Together
  • Song

• The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Sense

• She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.

  

  E.D. Baker
  • Good
  • She
  • Sweet

• When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things. But certainly influences early on that I felt from my mother. I wouldn't say she was "political" per se; she was sensitive to other people.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • People
  • Questions
  • Persona

• The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Cause
  • Sink
  • Womanhood

• In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight

  

  Augustus Hopkins Strong
  • God
  • Sinner
  • Gracious

• The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Rooms
  • Cause
  • Inability