William Langland Quotes
Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, Chewen hire charite and chiden after moore - Swich chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in helle.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.
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O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.
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I think that it would be hard to find a family that didn't have a secret in it somewhere, and sometimes we know about them, sometimes we don't. Sometimes we have an inkling that there's something hidden, but I think that it touches everybody's life.
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It’s ok to be white.
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Few people know that President Obama has used drone attacks many times more than Bush ever did. Obama's off the charts in terms of drone attack.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.
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A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.
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A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
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It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.
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Keep your heart with a chaste mind
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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, Chewen hire charite and chiden after moore - Swich chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in helle.
