Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
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Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it
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Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
