Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Something

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Success
  • Team
  • Practice

• To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Family
  • Respect

• What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Fashion
  • Best
  • Discipline

• I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Great
  • Character
  • America

• Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Marketing
  • Online
  • Shop

• People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • America
  • Hate

• Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Business
  • City
  • Will

• According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Power
  • Monster
  • Legend

• I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Think
  • Year
  • Sunday

• I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Always
  • Singing
  • Known

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Community
  • Respect
  • City

• I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Girl

• There are few secrets in football. So execute.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Football
  • Secrets
  • Few

• It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Birth
  • Lovely
  • Rainbow

• The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Top
  • Success Is

• I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.

  

  Chip Conley
  • Work
  • Home
  • Feeling

• Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Personal
  • Dilemma
  • Pretense

• Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

  

  Aristotle
  • Law
  • Institution
  • Highest

• Even when your dream that you set out comes true, it's not always perfect, and there isn't always the kiss at the end, and we all get to live happily ever after. That's not the reality of life.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Dream
  • Comes true
  • Reality Of Life

• We know little of the things for which we pray.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer