Blaise Pascal Quotes

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.

It is a funny thing how hard it is to see the other fellow's point of view.

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

Attitudes are much more important than facts.

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

To understand a man is really to be that man.

In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.