William Butler Yeats Quotes

But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough And pressed at midnighht in some public place Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.

William Butler Yeats

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• Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Women
  • Problem
  • Inequality

• If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fall
  • Horse
  • Backup

• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Thoughts
  • Language

• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Surprise
  • Obsessed
  • Kitty

• We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Woman

• Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Society

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Genius
  • Rich

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

  Iman
  • Father
  • Science
  • Political

• A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Men
  • Country
  • Action

• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Clothes

• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • Death

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Food
  • Know

• I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

  

  James Cagney
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Girl

• Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

  

  Eric Williams Blackstreet
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Important
  • Real

• Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.

  

  Franjo Tudjman
  • She
  • Wife
  • Lies

• But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough And pressed at midnighht in some public place Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Character
  • Girl
  • Passion