William Butler Yeats Quotes

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats

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• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
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• In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
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• I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Up
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• I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

  

  Carl J. Lindner, Jr.
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• The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Play
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• Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • World
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• Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Words
  • Burden
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• Yes I’m a beast and I feast when I conquer!

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Beast
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• An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Hours
  • Lifetime
  • Terror

• They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Perfect
  • Morning
  • Hours

• The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Time
  • World
  • Certain

• One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Hours

• I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Taste
  • Wants
  • Brands

• To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Life
  • Death
  • Hours

• If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Book
  • Week

• Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Small
  • Should
  • Hours

• We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Small
  • Moving
  • Hours

• I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Trying
  • Firsts
  • Gym

• We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Refuse
  • Esteem
  • Hesitation

• If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Growing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the FBI was the personal fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Developing
  • Aspiration
  • FBI

• And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Hours
  • Beast
  • Rough