William Langland Quotes

I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.

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• Men are separated by so many petty things.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Men
  • Things
  • Petty

• We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Choose
  • Constitution
  • Cast

• As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Gospel

• When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Game
  • First
  • Kid

• I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Period

• There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Like
  • New
  • Theater

• O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Challenge

• I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People

• One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Too many younger people seem to prefer following celebrities instead of doing the work required to get an education that will someday lead to a job. If students today spent as much time on math and science and history as they do following these shallow celebrities, they might actually become contributors to society someday.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

  

  Jo Stafford
  • Mercy

• When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Action

• We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.

  

  David Milne
  • Time
  • May
  • Future

• China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

  

  Amy Chua
  • World
  • Trying
  • American

• There's always something to talk about.

  

  Boomer Esiason

• I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

  

  Colin Baker
  • Movie

• The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Team

• I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.

  

  Kirsten Vangsness
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Shopping

• Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out, many of our questions are, from God's point of view, rather like someone asking, "Is yellow square or round?" or "How many hours are there is a mile?

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Views
  • Yellow

• Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • People
  • Gun
  • Smoking

• To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believing
  • Mistaken
  • Christian Religion

• I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.

  

  William Langland
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