Misattributed Voltaire Quotes

#1. So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay.

Paul Singer

#2. So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope.

Thomas Dutton

#3. Perfect is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

#4. Human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

Robert Wright

#5. Rabids, the stranger had called them. It fit. I wondered where he was now, where he was going. I hoped, wherever it was, he would find his peace.

Julie Kagawa

#6. Voltaire once wrote, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Sir Francis Bacon added, "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Indira Gandhi concluded that "the power to question is the basis of all human progress." Great questions are clearly the quickest path to great answers.

Gary Keller

#7. This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

Marlin Fitzwater

#8. These are defining moments ... while the pain maybe greater ... the joy maybe greater.

M Carithers

#9. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

S.G. Tallentyre

#10. They're all about where people come from. The only thing important is where somebody's going.

Johnny Depp

#11. I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

Henry Rollins

#12. Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.

Italo Calvino

#13. Being beautiful is a quality of spirit recognized primarily in a woman whose soul is at rest because she believes her God when he calls her lovely.

Stasi Eldredge

#14. Diverse, horizontal social networks, in Ruef's analysis, were three times more innovative than uniform, vertical networks. In groups united by shared values and long-term familiarity, conformity and convention tended to dampen any potential creative sparks.

Steven Johnson

#15. Even trees do not die without a groan.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it.

Majel Barrett

#17. The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

Dennis Lehane

#18. As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

Taylor Wilson