Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Actions

• I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Fall
  • Jam
  • Eleven

• I had long hair when I was a teenager.

  

  Beck
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Teenager

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Trees

• For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Time
  • Together
  • Service

• There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Way
  • Number
  • How

• Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Food
  • Simple
  • Spices

• Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Beware
  • Bearing
  • Geeks

• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Depend

• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wish

• I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Eat
  • Sure
  • Least

• Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Great
  • Democracy
  • Commitment

• Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Like
  • Impossible
  • Selling

• If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Know

• And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Country
  • High
  • Today

• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Important
  • War
  • Man

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• My father’s people were Welsh, and the oppression of the burdened miners also shaped my genes.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • People
  • Father
  • Welsh

• If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Long
  • Society
  • Serious

• Even when we feel like we have found theological common ground—like Abraham as the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims—we quickly discover that even those paradigms have their limits. There are a million Hindus in this country, and over three million Buddhists, and neither of those communities would be called Abrahamic. But they live in America, too, and we have to have a paradigm that includes them.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Discover
  • Limits
  • Jews

• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Person
  • Part
  • Disturb

• When you are at Rome, do as you see.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
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  • Rome