Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

Miguel de Cervantes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SheepCommandFlockThoughThing

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

John Liu

BestPeopleTryMotivateIndividual

Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.

Stanley A. McChrystal

TrustAmericaViolenceSocialHow

In 'Deadwood,' it was just extremely unaesthetic. They actually put underarm merkins on and covered me with dirt!

Robin Weigert

MeDirtJustActuallyCoveredPut

Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.

Rory MacLean

FamilyRacismTrueMeatHumourLean

I don't have a mortgage or kids, so I can lie low and tighten my belt if I need to.

Rory McCann

LieI CanMortgageNeedLowKids

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Mila Kunis

FunnyMyselfFunThinkOkayThings

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

OpportunityPreparationLuckMeeting

Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.

Lisa Jewell

CompetitionNameLoserWinnerLook

Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.

Bob Menendez

PowerPeopleCensorshipHumanOver

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

Armstrong Williams

GreatPerfectionStrivingHumanUs

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

Pope John XXIII

WorkGenerosityChurchAttentionYou

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Richard Corliss

ArtMindBornHollywoodYearsBeen

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