Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Identity
  • Sacrifice
  • Security

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Live
  • City

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Time
  • Space
  • Thought

• There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Live
  • Week
  • I Can

• My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Single
  • Woman

• From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Boy
  • Young
  • Army

• Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Past
  • Present
  • Story

• But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Science

• The soul of Iran incarnate in the body of India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Soul

• We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Suicide

• We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for generations.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • God
  • Country
  • Culture

• Concrete poetry began for me with the extraordinary sense that the syntax I had been using , the movement of language within me, af a physical level was no longer there. So it had to be replaced with something else with a syntax and movement that would be true of this new feeling.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Poetry

• This is the very contrary of dropping out. Most people can't wait to get home to their house or apartment and shut that door and turn on the TV. To me, that's dropping out.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • People
  • Home
  • House

• Power to vary in plants or animals is itself a feature as readily transmissible as is stability of character. The quality of varying to meet varying environments is therefore one of the hereditary traits which the plant breeder must consider, and which may itself be extended or overcome by the processes of crossing and selection.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • May
  • Character
  • Power

• I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

  

  Andy Dick
  • Up
  • God
  • Lost

• I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • People
  • Up
  • Military

• Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Mind
  • Wisdom
  • Guides

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• When I grow too old and dull to rock 'n rollLike to hold on tight to you darlingAnd when my fires have all burned outI'd like to think I can still think aboutThe things I used to sing aboutWhen I was spending all my time aloneBy myself and on my ownSeldom seen and quite unknown.

  

  James Taylor
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Unknown

• That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer