Consistency Quote by Thomas Mallon Download Open image ““[Voltaire] was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.”” — Thomas Mallon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consistency Voltaire
“Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues.” — James Aldridge Copy Share Image
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“That is why all romantics are anti-Voltairean, even Michelet, whose political fervor ought to have made him stand aligned with Voltaire; and that is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“He’s over your head!” He was, but naturally I’d flung myself into the Sea of Voltaire anyway and emerged with nothing more than several… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The closest that either Voltaire or the other historical geniuses of the age -- Hume and Gibbon -- came to understanding unreason's creative potentialities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From May 1717 to April 1718, Voltaire sat comfortably in the infamous prison insulting the Regent and reading Homer. ” — Jessica Powell Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Everyone recognized she was without malice and therefore she provoked none.” — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“There would be many crimes and errors which it would be beyond his power to commit, simply because they were nameless and therefore unimaginable.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He was beholden to no one, and would never take on trust what others might maintain to be true without himself coming to an… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“he’d spent his whole life trying to make God love him—and that this didn’t matter in the slightest. All that mattered was that he… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor study. — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them. — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone,… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
One decision I made in writing 'Henry and Clara' was that I would keep Lincoln's appearances and any dialogue by him to an absolute… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I remember from my academic days, there were people who could never begin writing because they hadn't read every single thing on their subject,… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
One things guys have to remember is consistency... You can't make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout. — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
I give you everything you want as an artist, for so long. Consistency. Wordplay. Wittiness. You can check the checklist. Only thing I don't… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to learn the piano, but because I travel so much, I can never get any consistency of lessons. So everywhere… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
“Strong trust is built brick by brick, through honesty, consistency, and showing up even when it’s hard to keep the promise.” — Ayoub Imilouane Copy Share Image
I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine. — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
