Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Want
  • Understand

• 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

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Taxes
  • How
  • Fees

• I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Childhood

• I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Easily
  • Embarrass

• You always learn something from mistakes.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Freedom
  • Beginning
  • Process

• The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Perfect
  • Dog
  • Camera

• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Life
  • God
  • Kindness

• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Power
  • Earth

• Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking

• Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Believe
  • Game

• Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber. (The TMZ Show)

  

  Charlie Sheen

• You shut your mouth,How can you say I go about things the wrong way?I am human and I need to be lovedJust like everybody else does

  

  Morrissey The Smiths

• Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

  

  William Blake
  • Passions
  • Cultivated
  • Gates Of Heaven

• Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Justice
  • Happiness
  • Luxury

• When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods.

  

  Epictetus
  • Imagine
  • Gods
  • Ordered

• Love is proved in the letting go.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Love Is
  • Letting Go
  • Proved

• Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Justice
  • Gods
  • Mercy