Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.
Ion Tiriac
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart Tolle
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
Nate Berkus
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
Patrick Kane
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
Tamra Davis
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
Haley Bennett
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
Patrick deWitt
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
Jackie Speier
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
Gary Johnson
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I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.
Jacob deGrom
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
Harlan Coben
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
Carl Lewis
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
Taylor Kitsch
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I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
Tanith Lee
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I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.
Rachele Brooke Smith
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
Walter Lord
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We ought not to judge superior men without reference to the spirit of their age. This is an influence from which they cannot escape, and so far as it extenuates their errors it ought to be pleaded in their favour.
John Tyndall
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When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
Taraji P. Henson
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We actually have been toying around with a theatrical element. We even had outfits that we wore on stage for the last tour. But I think when people come to see us they ultimately expect a rock show, so we're pulling back on that aspect a bit. We do play in front of a backdrop, though.
Colin Meloy
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Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.
John Gibbon
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We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
George A. Smith
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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
Geoffrey Chaucer