"We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Dream Quotes #Hope Quotes #Painful Quotes

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
“God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.”
“Our only objective at the start of the season was to stay in this league and we should do that. If we don't it'll be the Devon Loch of all Devon Lochs.”

Source : "Roberts and Camara put Wigan in the frame" by Matt Scott, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2005.
“Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.”
“There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.”
“It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.”
“If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.”

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