Candide Ou L'optimisme Quotes & Sayings

The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for his return. They looked backward to the cross and the atonement for sin, and rejoiced in Christ crucified. They looked upward to Christ at the right hand of God, and rejoiced in Christ interceding. They looked forward to the promised return of their Master, and rejoiced in the thought that they would see him again. And we ought to do the same — J.C. Ryle

That which a man takes for himself no one can deny him. — Amitav Ghosh

If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me. — Channing Tatum

The truth was stranger than the official fiction. — Dean Koontz

This had always frightened her about marriage: how satisfied married people seemed, how unable they were to ask for more. She couldn't imagine feeling satisfied. — Brit Bennett

Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance. — John F. Kerry

I hardly went to school. — Karl Lagerfeld

The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides. — Charles Dickens

Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty? — Garth Risk Hallberg

I get stopped all the time on the street. I can't believe how many people watch 'Dexter.' — Shawn Hatosy

Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ. — Luiz Felipe Scolari

Close your eyes to see the world with your imaginative mind. — Debasish Mridha

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt — M.C. Beaton