Fers Quotes

#1. At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#2. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Thomas Gray

#3. Curiosity is the fuel that powers the engine of human advancement

Keigo Higashino

#4. Here was the worst curse: he managed to force the dream from his conscious mind often enough that when it returned to him (opening the pantry door, say, recalling the sweep of floodwater), the experience of it became fresh and bleeding once more.

Anthony Doerr

#5. Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Dennis Prager

#6. No one we knew ever believed that there was anything between us but the sex and some virulent allure, my dirty dishwater circling the drain of you. Not a pretty comparison but maybe it's the best we'll ever deserve, either of us.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#7. No. Skeve is not any kind of terrorist. He's an idiot." "The overlapping Venn-diagram section of those two categories, you will find, can be quite large.

Ben H. Winters

#8. Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

Cornel West

#9. I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

Charlize Theron

#10. A poor way to repay them - gambling their sacrifice for a bag of magic tricks.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#12. Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

Patrick Macnee

#13. The great tradition of America is one where people can worship the way they want to worship. And if they choose not to worship, they're just as patriotic as your neighbor. That is an essential part of why we are a great nation. If you're a Jew or a Christian or a Muslim, you're equally American.

George W. Bush

#14. There are places. Abandoned places. Forgotten places. These are the places I like to be.

Dawn Kurtagich