Console Quotes - Page 9

• The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Art, Purpose, Purpose Of Art

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• Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.... We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Thinking, Light, Hands

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

  Aldo Leopold

  Museums, Rivers, Environmental

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.559, Library of America

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• What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do?
  Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be...
  Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence,
  wit, curiosity, sweetness, passion, talent and grace.

  Diane Ackerman

  Beauty, Passion, Zest

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• Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

  Trip Hawkins

  Healthy, Pace, Gamer

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• The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Life, Pain, Pleasure

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• Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Heart, Trying

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• We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and more important: I remind myself to find the pleasure in this moment, a time in which the red sky passes to black, children create unanticipated rhymes, and the stars fall closer to earth.

  Laura McPhee

  Photography, Stars, Children

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• As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

  Trip Hawkins

  Phones, Innovation, Internet

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• God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

  Joseph Joubert

  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Consolation

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

  James Russell Lowell

  God, Lifts

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.446

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• Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Vices, Virtue

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• Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Food, Eight, Typewriters

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• It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Saint, Employment, World

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.28

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• The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Lost, Graves, Distress

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• As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

  Ernest Cline

  Games, House, Three

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• And empty heads console with empty sound.

  Alexander Pope

  Sound, Speech, Empty

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.356

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• The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

  Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

  Eternity, Shortness Of Life, Shortness

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• I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

  Steven Weber

  Coward, Noel, Bitter

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.

  Marcel Proust

  Fall, Night, Young Friends

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.130, Vintage

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• Every console, I don't give a damn if it's analog or digital-hell, every mixing situation today-is the brainchild of Bill Putnam.

  Bruce Swedien

  Giving, Today, Digital

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• The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sympathy, Compassion

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.322, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games. That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version.

  John Carmack

  Games, People, Platforms

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• Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve  . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

  Blaise Pascal

  Comfort, Found, Ifs

  'Pensèes' (1670) no. 553

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• It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!

  George Meredith

  Fighting, Past, Men

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.89

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