William Butler Yeats Quotes

Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.

William Butler Yeats

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• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
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• My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• In married life three is company and two none.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• 'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • My Life
  • First

• Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

  

  Warren Farrell
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  • Relationship
  • Nice

• Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Live
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• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Remember
  • True

• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

  

  Xenophon
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  • Society
  • Words

• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • True
  • Religious

• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

  

  A. James Clark
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• I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

  

  Yael Naim
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  • Soul

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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• Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Time
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  • Men

• Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Environment

• I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself.

  

  Labrinth LSD
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• Where there are neglected opportunities we will seize on them, and we will focus on the priorities of the people of London: cutting crime, improving transport, protecting green space, delivering affordable housing, giving taxpayers value for money in every one of the 32 boroughs.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • People
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  • Giving

• South Dakota, like a lot of rural states, small states, there are small cities with a very big work ethic, very common sense approach. That has certainly shaped me.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Work
  • Small

• Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Life
  • God
  • Reality

• Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so too does a man incur the guilt of falsehood who, on the part of the Church, gives worship to God contrary to the manner established by the Church or divine authority, and according to ecclesiastical custom.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Church
  • Guilty

• Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.

  

  William Butler Yeats
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  • Children