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Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.


Blaise Pascal

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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will n...
BLAISE PASCAL And if you have a minute, why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could...
BIL KEANE We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We usually only use 20. But that's enough to keep the students interested, and the Wind Machine is a...
ANGELA CRING That we weren't expecting. It was great to find that people have a curiosity about it and want to kn...
DAN KOHL When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, an...
BLAISE PASCAL You can only talk to him so much about socks.
EDWARD SKYLER We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we i...
M.L. STEDMAN I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only goo...
GABY HOFFMANN I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not w...
ROGER MOORE We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognize our qualities
ANDRE MAUROIS I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.
LYDIA DAVIS We see that we can be champions. It?s not just something that we talk about and dream about. We see ...
DAQUAN GIBSON If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I d...
KENDALL JENNER Communication about important issues should be done by appointment only. To make an appoint say: I h...
TERENCE T. GORSKI The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON We can only wonder what they don't want us to know.
EDWARD KENNEDY I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.
BECKY LOUREY He blesses us so we can be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When we bring something in, we usually only bring three or four pieces in.
ALICE MARQUARDT We've had matches where we only missed five. That's not something we usually do.
BARB ALLEN I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsk...
ANDREA BOCELLI When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only...
PAULO COELHO We only care about our faults when we realize them.
DANIEL MELGAçO We know we only have so much energy for reaching out; if we’re going to invest, we want it to be g...
LAURIE A. HELGOE There was a Princess Somebody of Denmark sitting at a table with a number of people around her, and ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is t...
INGRID BERGMAN This team is good. We'll see them definitely one more time, and if anybody has anything to do with i...
MIKE RUCKER The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
PETER DRUCKER Even when I'm dreading it, I want to talk about it - it only helps me.
SARAH SILVERMAN In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep...
ZHOU XUN Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only fi...
ALAN RICKMAN Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something,...
STEFAN ZWEIG We are interested in his signature, yet we will only talk about it next June,
GIACINTO FACCHETTI ...It makes me cry, I want to talk about something I am not sure I can talk about, I want to talk ab...
HéLèNE CIXOUS I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
JERRY ONLY We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
JERRY ONLY The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch ...
JERRY ONLY My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.
JERRY ONLY Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you pro...
JERRY ONLY There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected e...
JERRY ONLY Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.
JERRY ONLY The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the wh...
JERRY ONLY We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guest...
JERRY ONLY We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
JERRY ONLY The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10...
JERRY ONLY We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about...
KEVIN AYERS Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, th...
BLAISE PASCAL It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things tha...
RICHARD FEYNMAN What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life on...
SAM FRANCIS The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
PETER DRUCKER The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
PETER F. DRUCKER I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
GEORGE W. BUSH There is only so much we can take in as drivers and in a split second it is easy to miss something.
EDMUND KING We women talk too much, nevertheless we only say half of what we know.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS We women talk too much, nevertheless we only say half of what we know.
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS What we now have are the parties spending enormous amounts of soft money and pumping it into adverti...
E. JOSHUA ROSENKRANZ The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON It's something we want to talk to the captains about and the umpires,
MALCOLM SPEED I can only talk about myself. That's who my campaign is about.
GINA CALDER Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent he...
JEFFREY MOORE We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they ...
ERIC HOFFER One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can'...
FRED WILSON I want everyone to know that we are going to talk about just one plan that we have been considering.
BOB MULLER Usually this music is played only by a harp. If there's any accompaniment it's a harpsichord or guit...
BOB FROST Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci...
PHILIP K. DICK A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
YIDDISH PROVERB This is only about the fifth one of those we've had this year. So it's not our first rodeo when it c...
NICK SABAN We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY The Europeans are in conflict with the Americans, who would like to talk only about agriculture, ver...
JEAN GLAVANY Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The onl...
C. JOYBELL C. That is something we are going to talk about this weekend.
MIKE TAYLOR We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else,...
GEORGE MACDONALD The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.
ANDY WARHOL It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
CYRIL CONNOLLY If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with...
DR. DRE We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I kno...
ANNETTE BENING I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
OSCAR WILDE It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only th...
ABEL FERRARA You can talk about the Cowboys of the 1990s and they were called a dynasty. So you want to put us in...
TEDY BRUSCHI Right now we are really not supposed to talk about that subject, you know, ... It is still an ongoin...
JESSICA LYNCH He is a good guy, and he is a funny guy now that he has let his personality come out. We are startin...
JUSTIN ROBINSON We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our pr...
MILAN KUNDERA We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an ima...
SIMONE WEIL We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Ut...
LIONEL TRILLING When greeting others, we usually ask them how they are doing, not because we sincerely care about ho...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know i...
BILL MURRAY They always talk about the big first thing that you did. I think the only thing that I do mind is I ...
KELLY CLARKSON Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enoug...
JEAN TOOMER Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS One reason that we stay so successful in this town is because we not only get great publicity, but b...
BETH FORBES But we do want people to know that Muslims on campus have something to say about it.
SYED AHMED At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them...
KATE MICUCCI It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 What does this desire and this inability of our...
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