Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

• I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

  Ford Frick
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Opera

• In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • World
  • Rich

• I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Food
  • Die

• Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Texas

• You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Dreams never wear you down.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Dreams
  • Wear

• A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Dreams
  • Burn

• Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Change
  • Dead

• Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Energy
  • Coffee
  • Idiot

• I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Different
  • Explore

• Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Life
  • Important
  • Risk

• The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

  

  N. T. Wright

• Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Love
  • Musicians
  • Played

• Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

  

  Shah Rukh Khan
  • Phenomenon
  • Physical
  • Laziness

• Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

  

  Plotinus
  • Soul
  • Fear
  • Nothing

• According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Sin
  • Wealth
  • Works

• Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Forgotten
  • Truths
  • Illusions

• The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

  

  Rex Stout
  • Keys
  • Glasses

• Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
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