Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

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• People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Different
  • High

• I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • World
  • Stupid
  • Research

• We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be apprehended, and it is plain they design, by the same treacherous means, if they can, to destroy the rest.

  

  Xenophon
  • Rest
  • Design
  • King

• By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

  

  Nabeshima Naoshige
  • Words
  • Lies
  • Gold

• Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Defend
  • Attacking

• I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Period
  • Nerd
  • Jockiness

• Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Great
  • Fear

• Having lots of members of my family who were in ministry in one form or another, I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that at quite an early age, I was very, very conscious personally of the love of God.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Family
  • Age

• In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Regard
  • Great Book

• If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

  

  Aristotle
  • Human
  • Property
  • Difficulty

• Intelligence and genius.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Genius
  • Intelligence

• But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Know
  • Calendar
  • Christmas time

• Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Hands
  • Laughter

• Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

  

  Ruby Wax
  • Body
  • Hard
  • Social

• It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Opinion
  • Judgment
  • Wise Men

• Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Bones
  • Chickens
  • Hatched