Cacambo From Candide Quotes

#1. I'm beginning to appreciate getting answers out of Akil is like pushing water up hill. The second you think you have him, he slips around behind you, and the answers become questions all over again.

Pippa DaCosta

#2. love was a dream. And just like a dream, there were no assurances behind it. It didn't grow on its own. It didn't blossom without food to feed it. It

Mariana Zapata

#3. Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

Philip Pullman

#4. Forgive me if I don't shake hands.

Doc Holliday

#5. Said Candide to Cacambo:
My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue, and the happiness of seeing Cunegonde once more.

Voltaire

#6. I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?

Hunter Hayes

#7. What's optimism? said Cacambo.
Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

Voltaire

#8. On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

Pope Francis

#9. We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.

Blaise Pascal

#10. Septimus: There is nothing more to be said about sexual congress.
Thomasina: Is it the same as love?
Septimus: Oh no, it is much nicer than that.

Tom Stoppard

#11. Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

#12. Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Voltaire

#13. I am increasingly convinced that people who have power are not necessarily smarter than others. Beyond a certain level of intelligence and level in the hierarchy, everyone is smart. What differentiates people is their political skill and savvy.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#14. What's Optimism?' asked Cacambo. 'I'm afraid to say,' said Candide, 'that it's a mania for insisting that all is well when things are going badly.

Voltaire

#15. The business of selling is not just about matching viable solutions to the customers that require them. It's equally about managing the change process the customer will need to go through to implement the solution and achieve the value promised by the solution

Jeff Thull

#16. Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#17. At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

George Carlin

#18. What is this optimism?" said Cacambo. "Alas!" said Candide, "it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.

Voltaire