Canterbury Tales Prologue Wife Of Bath Quotes & Sayings

There wasn't a rhyme or reason to the universe and those who occupied it. We were here. Some us for long durations and some of us for not so long, but the one thing we humans could depend on from life was pain. — Nicole Williams

Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? In — Marcus Aurelius

What are you now, Jaz Bond? Double-oh-Six, the chhakka secret agent? — Manil Suri

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? ... That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then. — Donna Karan

Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable. — Laura Sydell

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. — Gustav Mahler

Spencer Brown puts it) once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer, appear foolish for not having discovered them before. It is all too often forgotten that the ancient symbol for the prenascence (i.e., prior to emergence state) of the world is a fool, and that foolishness, being a divine state, is not a condition to be either proud or ashamed of. — Alan W. Watts

Truly? That whole determined, dangerous saunter across the room was for me? In that case, would you mind going back and doing it all over again? Slowly this time, and with feeling. — Tessa Dare

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer. — Pat Brown

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough. — Russell Brand

A.N. Kolmogorov and Yasha Sinai had worked out some illuminating mathematics for the way a system's "entropy per unite time" applies to the geometric pictures of surfaces stretching and folding in phase space. The conceptual core of the technique was a matter of drawing some arbitrarily small box around some set of initial conditions, as one might draw a small square on the side of a balloon, then calculating the effect of various expressions or twists on the box. It might stretch in one direction, for example, while remaining narrow in the other. The change in area corresponded to an introduction of uncertainty about the system's past, a gain or loss of information. — James Gleick

I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong. — Christopher Rice

Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense. — Edward Rutledge