Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

He coude songes make, and wel endite.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Humanity

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Almost

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • More
  • Four
  • Thousand

• Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Amazing

• We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Philosophy

• I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Audience

• When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Person
  • Just

• I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Discipline

• Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Try

• Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Christianity

• I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Me

• I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Practice
  • Kiss

• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• For makeup, I swear by a base of Embryolisse, Nars concealer, that Bobbie Brown foundation stick, Pat's highlighter, a brow fill-in with dark brown eyeshadow and angle brush, a groom with Anastasia brow gel, an eyelash curl, and two swipes of drugstore mascara.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Dark
  • Makeup
  • Foundation

• I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

  

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger
  • Warrior

• Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Beautiful

• We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • Leap
  • Bound
  • Couplets

• Now I'm sitting quietly at home again and I'm happy to be able to work undisturbed. I made a lot of sketches of life in Germany and it was very intriguing to see life there in Berlin, a stay for three weeks. I was also glad to see the old pictures of Rembrandt, Dürer, etc. again and to have the confirmation and encouragement they gave me. As for the moderns, I saw damned little that gripped me.. .Modern German painting has moved so far away from me and become unintelligible in areas in which my work had, and still has, an influence; but people like Klee, Kandinsky, etc. have moved much closer to me again, in fact I value the Bauhaus more and more. These people are working and developing. You can see that there is development. And they love their work, which is the main thing.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Happy
  • Painting
  • Influence

• He coude songes make, and wel endite.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer