Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• I've been a target my entire life. At this point, there's nothing anyone can say that will faze me. Bring it on!

  

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• The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

  

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• I tried to throw a fastball inside, and the ball kind of slipped out of my hand where I didn't want to throw it. That was a big mistake. If I walk Chipper in that situation and get a groundball with the next hitter, then nothing happens and I should win the game 2-0.

  

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• Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.

  

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• There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

  

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• Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

  

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• Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Possess
  • Stile
  • Leaping