#ives

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#anything #few #films #happy #happy people

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been. ↗

— Sean Parker

#been #career #drives #having #i

Purpose is what gives life a meaning. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#life #meaning #purpose

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#alternatives #any #facts #fit #itself

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#anything #because #him #his #i

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#art #chance #gives #keep #removes

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#god #heart #perceived #perceives #reason

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#buy #cheap #days #dear #how

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world. ↗

— George Pataki

#entitled #lives #medical #new #new york

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

#books #die #end #hard #human