Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Forbede us thing, and that desiren we; Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we flee. With daunger oute we al oure chaffare: Greet prees at market maketh dere ware, And too greet chepe is holden at litel pris.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

• You can't choose up sides on a round world.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • Choose

• I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Children
  • Think
  • Nice

• I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Person
  • Failures
  • Negatives

• There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Running
  • Stop
  • California

• In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Important
  • Business
  • Know

• My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Me
  • Never
  • Face

• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Better
  • Did
  • Ohio

• We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Free
  • Change
  • Single

• It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Children
  • Duty

• People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • People
  • Know
  • Look

• I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Different
  • Think
  • Environment

• I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Music
  • Think
  • Pretty

• The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Business
  • Me
  • Film

• You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Beginning

• Potato overboard!

  

  Rachael Ray

• I LOVED her! ay, I would have givenA death-bed certainty of heavenIf I had thought it could conferThe least of happiness on her!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Death

• God don't make no junk.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God

• Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Perfect
  • Communism
  • Social Democracy

• By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere.

  

  E. B. White
  • Live
  • City
  • Cities

• “human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.”

  

  Ashok K. Banker
  • Ignorance
  • Capacity
  • Arrogance

• Forbede us thing, and that desiren we; Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we flee. With daunger oute we al oure chaffare: Greet prees at market maketh dere ware, And too greet chepe is holden at litel pris.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer