#ore

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#clothes #condition #designers #get #go

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful. ↗

— Sean Parker

#easier #i #i think #just #more

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.' ↗

— Sean Parker

#assistant #before #conversation #dinner #does

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#discovered #found #more #others #people

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#fortifies #more #nothing #scepticism #some

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#difference #find #finds #greater #intellect

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#bloody #earth #end #forever #head

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#far #fools #master #more #other

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

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#badly #draw #minds #more #place