Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
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I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
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Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
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We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
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Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.
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For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me.
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Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
