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Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Miguel de Cervantes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: spanish
Birth: September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

Topics

Stars Courage Man World Better Will

We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.

Andrew Solomon

Security Never Human Rights Afford

I've worked on a lot of fighting games, so I was very used to the idea of combat sounds.

Matthew Mercer

Fighting Games Used Idea Sounds Lot

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

Ann Rutherford

Depression Money I Am Height Earning

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

Michael Eric Dyson

People World Black Famous Result

For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.

Sue Monk Kidd

Dog Me Solitude Writing Husband

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

Sidney Poitier

Family Father Mother Women Be Kind

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Sigmund Freud

Good Experience Think You Say Trash

We'll go to South America and play to 60,000. It's insane.

Mike McCready

America Play Go Insane South America

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

Josh Tillman

Yourself Thinking You Stop Like Ape

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

Jose Marti

Help Guilty Relieve Does

In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, all Ph.D.s from the best universities of the world. And guess what? They're all women.

Christine Lagarde

Good Women Best Men World Group

Expats are a self-selecting group of outgoing, confident people - if you're not those things, you probably don't choose this adventure - and the lifestyle is very conducive to making fast, close friends.

Chris Pavone

Adventure People Confident Choose