Arouet Voltaire Quotes

#1. If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Voltaire

#2. People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know.

Noam Chomsky

#3. Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk ...

Barry Hughart

#4. I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

Ansel Elgort

#5. I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#6. You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

Le Corbusier

#7. I've written whole books in order to avoid writing other books.

Sarah Manguso

#8. We have a great location between Boston and New York, a highly educated work force, and Connecticut is a beautiful place to live.

Susan Bysiewicz

#9. When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are there ... in the end, you'll look the best in it.

John Varvatos

#10. The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the Pentagon's budget, dozens of fatted PACs, and the well-advertised support of the Christian deity.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#11. Lucy had no wish to entertain that gentleman. None at all. It was not that Lucy did not wish to marry Mr. Olson, for she had no doubt that marrying him was the most practical thing to do. Nevertheless, she would very much rather avoid the necessity of making conversation with him.

David Liss