Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

  

  Quintilian
  • Parents
  • Alone
  • Educated

• Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Progress
  • Number
  • Rare

• Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Finish

• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Love
  • Forget
  • Ability

• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • Human
  • Conservative

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Help

• You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Perception
  • Media

• It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Outfit
  • Compensate

• Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Friend
  • President
  • Boss

• Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Life
  • Country
  • Like

• For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • She
  • Balance
  • Successful

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• I'm a very good screamer, that's for sure.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Good

• Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

  

  Poppy Z. Brite
  • Food
  • Wish
  • Husband

• If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.

  

  Frank Bruno
  • People
  • Good
  • Help

• I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

  

  Donald Ray Pollock
  • World
  • Great
  • Writing

• My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Done

• The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Trust

• Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Helping

• I was always the mediator.

  

  Jennifer Aniston

• The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pleasure
  • Fame
  • Riches

• I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Missing
  • Japanese
  • Translated

• Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Reason
  • Monster
  • Knight