Voltaire Quotes

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Topics

ManLegalBetterGuiltyInnocent

I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out.

Joe Mauer

TimeHateGameMatterOutJust

It's important in life to celebrate any victory in life.

Jillian Michaels

LifeVictoryCelebrateImportantAny

Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.

Joe Wright

HateFeelingBeingMostHandled

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

Michael Ignatieff

PoliticsReadingFriendsYouBad

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

John Sununu

PositiveGoodGovernmentMondayWeek

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

John Pomfret

TimeBicycleTransportationMove

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

Steven Pinker

TimePeopleLanguageOverImpression

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

Mike Myers

SchoolHigh SchoolUniversityHigh

Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day.

Mo Ibrahim

LifeMorningDayKnowUpGoing

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

Johnny Depp

LifeMusicHatePeopleMeListening

It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.

DMX

EnergyThinkDoingWasteJustHow

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

Denise Mina

PeopleReadingCrimeFictionQuite

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