Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
-
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.
-
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
-
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
-
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
-
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
-
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
-
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.
-
I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.
-
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
-
I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.
-
The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.
-
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
