Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. Lucas -
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
W. H. Davies -
I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
Farley Mowat -
Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
Yitzhak Navon -
When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
Paris Hilton -
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
Yulia Tymoshenko
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya -
Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
It's great fun to play with a really good band.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
Ma Jun
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
Dallas Willard -
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales -
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
Barbara Mikulski -
The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
Adam Cohen -
When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.
Aaron Neville -
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
Camille Paglia -
It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.
Elliott Smith -
Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism.
Asma Jahangir -
We know that when change comes, no one is more adamant in holding on to the past than those in power. They know change is inevitable, but they would, if they could, parcel it out in measured pieces. Grain for chickens.
Jack McDevitt -
Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
Geoffrey Chaucer