Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Trust
  • Like
  • Instinct

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Work
  • Experience
  • First

• The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Age
  • Me
  • Saying

• I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Forever
  • Appreciate
  • Shopping

• It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Women
  • History
  • Vote

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Up
  • Nature

• Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Character
  • Humanity
  • Contact

• I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.

  

  Edmund White
  • Myself
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• You realize mortality is everywhere.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • You
  • Realize
  • Mortality

• There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • School
  • Together
  • Support

• I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Relationship
  • United States

• While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Quality

• I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Life
  • Business
  • Kids

• But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • City

• I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Speak

• Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Mother
  • Uniqueness

• This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Tired
  • Tormented

• There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Heart
  • Kind
  • Brain

• The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Truths
  • British
  • Preacher

• My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Heart
  • Pleases
  • Retain