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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• Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?

  

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• We're encouraging them to bring healthy snacks, but when a parent comes up with a tray of sweets, I'm not going to turn them away. I don't want to be the cupcake killer.

  

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• Difficulty shows what men are.

  

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• The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

  

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• We had longed for this success for many years, ... But better late than never.

  

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• Since so many people these days don't seem to start their families until around age forty, I predict there will be less child beating, but more slipped disks from lifting babies out of cribs. Even the father of advanced age who's not inclined to spare the rod is likely to suffer more than his victim: The first punch he throws might well be the last straw for his rotator cuff, reducing his disciplinary options to mere verbal abuse and napping.

  

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• I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

  

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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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• ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

  

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• There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

  

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• The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.

  

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• Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.

  

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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