William Butler Yeats Quotes

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

William Butler Yeats

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• Fiddle

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• People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

  

  Ted Yoho
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  • Different

• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Choose

• Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Life
  • Fire
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• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  

  Francesca Annis
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• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
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• Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Risk
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• I can only control what I can control.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Control
  • I Can
  • Only

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
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• I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Hope
  • Say
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• Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Oil

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Broken

• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Heart
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• Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

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  • Live
  • Heart
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• The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Dangerous
  • Crime
  • Expansion

• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Fragrance
  • Lemon
  • Lime

• I have my own dance and production companies, and acting is my creative outlet. It's what I'm passionate about. I've actually created a lifestyle where I could act for free. I could get a job to pay the bills and act on the weekends to make me smile.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Job
  • Free
  • Dance

• There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Know
  • Spiritual
  • Information

• There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • You
  • Space
  • Successful

• When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After six months, the album was dead in the water. The critics didn't think much of it, either.

  

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  • Strong
  • Water

• Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Accomplish
  • Leap

• And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Dance
  • Merry
  • Fiddle