William Butler Yeats Quotes

I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

William Butler Yeats

• Dream
• Reason
• Imagination
• Vision
• Silent

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• I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

  

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• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

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• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

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• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  

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• I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.

  

  Lance Gross
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• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Time
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  • Stand

• One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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• An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
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• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

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• Everything I say is true.

  

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• You can observe a lot by watching.

  

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• There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

  

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• Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Heart

• The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.

  

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• 'CHRIST the LORD is ris'n To-day,'Sons of Men and Angels say,Raise your Joys and Triumphs high,Sing ye Heav'ns, and Earth reply.

  

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• My anxiety is my least favorite thing! I’m a natural-born worrier. If I don’t have something to worry about, I’ll find something! I wish I could just let things go, and I’m working on that. My best quality is probably my energy and my eagerness to accomplish things. I’m a go-getter so it’s hard to sit still.

  

  Susan McBride
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• I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Dream
  • Reason
  • Imagination