Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Done
  • Age
  • Acting

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Admire

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Man
  • Tired
  • Retired

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Small
  • Airplane
  • Village

• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Long
  • Think
  • Space

• When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • City
  • Thought

• Brazil is on my side.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Side
  • Brazil

• Short boots are cool, in my humble opinion. They say, 'Hey! Winter is over, but summer hasn't yet arrived - so enjoy this halfway point!'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Opinion
  • Summer

• I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • She
  • Remember
  • Want

• I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.

  

  Malcolm David Kelley
  • Dance
  • Down
  • Club

• I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Children
  • Love
  • Kids

• If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artwork's sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

  

  Jessica McNamee
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • May

• It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Men

• As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don't understand. There's a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.

  

  Andrea M. Ghez
  • Work
  • Black
  • Ignore

• He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • May