#ann

While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#am #because #choices #felt #giant

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#bob #bob hope #burns #caesar #case

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#collapse #institutions #layout #only #perfection

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#appearance #buffalo #cannot #emigrants #four

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#cannot #direct #sails #we cannot #wind

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#love #reason #reasons #understand #which

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#anything #cannot #everything #know #known

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#becomes #before #divine #finite #god

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#cannot #chaos #compulsion #ethical #invent

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#contain #love #love is #marriage #only