William Butler Yeats Quotes

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats

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• We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Life
  • Free
  • You

• I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

  

  E. L. James
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Song

• Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Hobby

• I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Life
  • Comfortable
  • Skin

• Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • You
  • Opinion

• Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Human
  • Place

• I like a quiet life.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Life
  • Like
  • Quiet

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Mood

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stand

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fashion

• I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Life
  • Strong
  • My Life

• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Luck

• There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Life
  • Patience
  • Little

• In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Life
  • Love
  • Pain

• No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Good
  • Sound
  • Judy Garland

• We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • American
  • Fun
  • Single

• To leverage those things that are common to everybody, and to present them in a way that's sort of naked, is more courageous in art than constantly trying to be evasively too cool.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Cool

• Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • Long
  • Preparation