#thing

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#affects #beyond #cautious #each #future

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #conceal #feeling #found #live

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#commercial #down #film #i #lot

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. ↗

— Sean Penn

#come #different #different parts #different roles #director

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#after #been #direction #like #little

I got my family here and my career here and I'm sitting here in the middle, and I'm stuck. So I have to do something, you know, have to reach out and get some help. ↗

— William Perry

#family #get #got #help #here

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of. ↗

— William Perry

#between #bragging #carolina #huge #i

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm. ↗

— Nick Park

#british #certain #charm #cute #find

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of. ↗

— Evan Davis

#mistakes #nothing