Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Father

• I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Together

• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Laughter
  • Gift
  • Clever

• I am a normal guy.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Guy
  • Normal

• My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • Wife
  • Purpose

• It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Old

• Contrary to the rumours that you've heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Father
  • Earth

• It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Bad

• Fear not the thunder, little one.It's weather, simply weather;It's friendly giants full of funClapping their hands together.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Together
  • Fear

• Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Discipline

• Theological or anti-theological argument to prove or disprove the existence of a deity seems to me to occupy itself largely with skating among the difficulties caused by our making a fetish of this word existence.

  

  Arthur Eddington

• The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.

  

  Alban Berg
  • Music
  • Logic

• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Work

• Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Work
  • Book
  • Food

• When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • Singing

• The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Decision
  • Effort

• I'm healthy now. I probably wouldn't say I'm at my best fitness level and I haven't played that much lately, but I'm healthy and that's all that matters.

  

  Mary Pierce
  • Fitness

• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Confidence

• Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

  

  C.J. Sansom
  • World
  • Family
  • Hope

• Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Alone
  • Ill-luck