William Butler Yeats Quotes

Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats

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• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Heart
  • Redemption

• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Proud
  • Regrets

• You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Heart
  • You
  • Break

• For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Words

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Together
  • Support
  • Desire

• Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Song
  • Journey
  • End

• I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Heart
  • First
  • Box

• While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Man

• Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • May
  • Desire
  • Possible

• My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Important
  • Heart

• Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Soul
  • Deep

• Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • World
  • Women
  • Control

• I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Learn
  • Writer
  • Source

• Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, told the BBC on Tuesday. Amr's talking points are so Sept. 10: It's supposed to destabilize the Middle East. The stability of the Middle East is unique in the non-democratic world and it's the lack of change in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt that's turned them into a fetid swamp of terrorist bottom-feeders.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Unique
  • League

• Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Desire