Actual Voltaire Quotes

#1. Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Ernest Dimnet

#2. Most people don't know how to tell stories.

Ted Rall

#3. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Voltaire

#4. In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

Francois Fenelon

#5. I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

Sally Mann

#6. Dreams can come true with God's great angels like you.

Garth Brooks

#7. I think so," she [Claire] said. "Just watch your back, okay?"
"Nah, Michael's got mine." He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes.
"I've got yours.

Rachel Caine

#8. The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.

Howard Behar

#9. I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

Michael Connelly

#10. Freedom is a choice, and we have to defend our choices.

Vahid Asghari