William Butler Yeats Quotes

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

William Butler Yeats

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• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Acting

• I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • House
  • Myself
  • Mirror

• The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • American
  • War
  • Party

• I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Right
  • Israel

• The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Always
  • Blood

• My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Cultural

• In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Work
  • Why
  • Father

• I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Nowadays

• If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Society
  • Stop

• The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Devil

• No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • People
  • Music
  • Earth

• Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Education

• The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Business

• Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • People
  • God
  • Friends

• I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Ellis
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Yoga

• Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Money
  • Poverty

• It's kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I'll make a note about it. I may even write a few pages about it, and then I'll put it aside, but I'll sort of keep it in mind. Then as time goes on, other things will gather to it as if it's a magnet, almost, and eventually, there's enough to make the story.

  

  Kim Edwards
  • Time
  • Mind
  • May

• Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Speculation
  • Resting
  • Certainties

• Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

  

  William Butler Yeats