Pococurante In Candide Quotes & Sayings

I'm going to go down swinging ... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament. — Andre Agassi

Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading little by little over men, over things, over ideas; a shadow which came from indignations and from systems. All that had been hurriedly stifled was stirring and fermenting. Sometimes the conscious of the honest man caught its breath, there was so much confusion in that air in which sophisms were mingled with truths. Minds trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of the storm. The electric tension was so great that at certain moments any chance-comer, thought unknown, flashed out. Then the twilight darkness fell again. At intervals, deep and sullen mutterings enabled men to judge of the amount of lightning in the cloud. — Victor Hugo

ORDINARY SAD-ASS HUMANNESS — William Gibson

Enough anecdotes make a pattern. — George F. Will

Oh! what a superior man," said Candide below his breath. "What a great genius is this Pococurante! Nothing can please him. — Voltaire

Since he'd stepped out of medical school, all he'd ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence. — Lee S. Hawke

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Let go yesterday and hold out for tomorrow, the future is in the palm of your hand. — L.L. Caulton

For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There, you will find that the person who fears God will not fear anyone, or anything else. This is not living in fear. By choosing one fear, they are liberated from the many fears. — Michael Ben Zehabe