A Quote by Blaise Pascal

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal
French - Philosopher
June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

E. W. Howe

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Blaise Pascal

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Carl Jung

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Jacques Barzun

My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.

Maria Jeritza

The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.'

Catherine Jinks

I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

Chelsea Clinton

God is gracious enough to let us know, in due time while we're here and the fact that I'm still around and I'm still singing, it is really to his glory.

Gladys Knight

There are lots of things one can criticise about the European parliament, but it does work pretty well in terms of the speed with which you can vote, the fact that there's room to sit, the fact that there are offices when you arrive.

Caroline Lucas

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.

Thomas Merton

Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.

Luther Standing Bear

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