Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.

Jenna Wortham

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I get scared of really simple things and not scared of big things.

Andrea Riseborough

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What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

Andrei Platonov

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Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

Russell Smith

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Historically, more media has been consumed sitting in front of the television than any other device. Controlling this screen has been the goal of major technology, consumer electronic, and telecommunications companies.

Jay Samit

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Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

Craig Bruce

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What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites.

Chrystia Freeland

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I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

Asia Argento

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Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.

Phyllis George

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Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide a huge financial incentive for attempts to overthrow the government and seize power.

Peter Singer

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I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

Shilpa Shetty

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How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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