Voltaire Quotes

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Voltaire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeAloneWinGameCardsPlay

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

John Boyne

AgeChildrenWritingInnocenceI Can

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

Andy Grove

ChildWantBecomeDiseaseDid

Cyclists are insane. You're going through the Alps, climbing up mountains. There's this circus around them. They're so tough. When they have a day off, they go out and cycle 100 miles.

Stephen Frears

DayMountainsToughYouGoCircus

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.

Shimon Peres

FriendshipNegativeDeepAmerican

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

TodayVisionTomorrowResearchLose

I don't see myself as being a heart-throb at all.

Dominic Cooper

MyselfSeeBeing

Actually, I think it's interesting that when I put the weight on, I was already with him. I don't know, maybe I felt safe. And he likes me like this. He likes me whatever size I am.

Delta Burke

I AmMeThinkInterestingKnowSize

We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.

Anthony Principi

LifePeopleImpactDecisionsReach

Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

Arvo Part

LifeWorkMusicI AmMy LifeDark

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

LifePowerAloneThreeSelf-Control

We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust, surpassing pre-crisis export levels and pre-crisis export growth trends. We have diversified our export baskets and our export destinations.

Pranab Mukherjee

GrowthWorldPerformanceYearIndia

Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything.

Kenya Barris

GreatActorEverythingJustHeToo

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