William Butler Yeats Quotes
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.William Butler Yeats
Quotes to Explore
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart Tolle -
I just want to do my job.
Ma Long -
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein -
I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
Vidya Balan -
I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
Aby Rosen
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
Randeep Hooda -
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary -
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
Aaron Eckhart -
I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
Rachel Stevens -
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein -
People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
Pat Paulsen
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
Hanoi Hannah -
The thing I like to do most is shop.
Madison Pettis -
When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.
Mandy Moore -
But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice -
Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
Harry A. Blackmun -
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
Captain Beefheart
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I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.
Uzo Aduba -
The DMZ does not divide the last bastion of communism from a liberal democracy; it divides a radical nationalist state from a moderate nationalist one.
Brian Reynolds Myers -
But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana -
I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards men
Frederick Douglass -
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.
William Butler Yeats