Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

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• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
  • Money
  • Like

• On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Written
  • Tombstone

• Life is a dead-end street.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Street
  • Life Is A

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Simple
  • Respond
  • Complex

• The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Fiction

• The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Life
  • Family
  • Parents

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Leader
  • Try
  • Compliment

• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Life
  • Great
  • Nothing

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Never
  • Dresses
  • Worn

• I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Time
  • Different
  • Challenge

• So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • War
  • Moral

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Party
  • Speak

• The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Real
  • Education
  • Control

• I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Children

• I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Religious

• Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Soul