Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• Ten years in this job is a really long time. These are tough assignments. I'm pleased I'm leaving in an amicable, civilized, mutually respectful way. Leslie felt it was time for a change and so did I.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attention
  • Secret

• The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attention
  • Reason

• Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

  

  Arthur Christiansen
  • Bad
  • Newspaper
  • Editor

• Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

  

  Plato
  • Good
  • Love
  • Joy

• He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

  

  Socrates
  • Has
  • Contented
  • Like To

• It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Working
  • Europe
  • Jews

• To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

  

  Confucius
  • Happy
  • Means
  • Contented

• At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

  

  Confucius
  • Heart
  • Desired
  • Dictates

• Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

  

  Plutarch
  • Learn
  • Worse
  • Pleased

• All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

  

  John Milton
  • Well
  • Pleased

• I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Prayer
  • Liberty
  • Desired

• I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • My Life
  • Invented
  • Pleased

• We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Opinions
  • Pleased
  • Instantly

• I don't love everything I do, and I don't always like how I am in it. I'm not always pleased.

  

  Richard Kind
  • Pleased
  • Don't Love

• We are pleased we haven't got one on order. It's too big an aircraft.

  

  Willie Walsh
  • Order
  • Pleased
  • Aircraft

• A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

  

  Michael Flanders
  • Live
  • Sloth
  • Idle

• To be a tough, rugged boy is every lad’s ambition. But to be a gentleman, to be kindly, charitable, thoughtful as well as tough and rugged is much more to be desired. And he who can be both is much the better man and usually much tougher in the long run.

  

  Nile Kinnick
  • Ambition
  • Gentleman
  • Desired

• 'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Love
  • Change
  • Humanity

• I always say, 'When the Olympics are happening, you shouldn't be in any other place in the planet - you should be here.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • You
  • Always
  • Place

• Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Law
  • Opinion
  • Judges

• What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Eye

• I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Pleased
  • Desired
  • Contented