Bouet Willaumez Quotes & Sayings

Inexhaustible ... our capacity to exempt from mercy those who look different or pray to a different God. — Barack Obama

To realize the Enlightenment ideals of formal equality, the rule of law, freedom of commerce, and religious toleration, Voltaire and many of the other philosophes looked to absolutist monarchs, whose policies they hoped to influence. The support of the philosophes for the expansion of the monarch's sovereign power was tactical. It arose not out of a principled belief in the throne, but out of the recognition that only a strong monarchy had the power to override the resistance to enlightened legislation by the privileged churches, estates, and corporations that made up continental European society. (p. 45) — Jerry Z. Muller

I don't like re-writing very much. The fourth and the fifth draft - that's too much like work. There's not much inspiration about it, and the lawyerly side kicks in - being very careful and somewhat technical. — Scott Turow

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.
- Clary Fray — Cassandra Clare

I'm going to be a fortune hunter!' - Lil
'I beg your pardon?' - Sophie — Katherine Woodfine

I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream. — Vincente Minnelli

To her to know truly, was to be intimate. To be intimate was to know the person you love as well as you know your own self. — Mike Gayle

Your number-one mission as a speaker is to take something that matters deeply to you and to rebuild it inside the minds of your listeners. We'll call that something an idea. — Chris J. Anderson

The story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it. — William J. Federer

When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected. — Alan Sugar

It's a dog-eat-dog world, and people like me are Purina ALPO - even easier to eat than another dog. Nom, nom. I — Elle Casey