William Butler Yeats Quotes

The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

William Butler Yeats

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• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • God
  • Like
  • Sun

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

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Me
  • Politics

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Loneliness

• Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creativity

• It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Social
  • Coincidence

• I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• 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
  • Water
  • Same
  • Beer

• Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Success
  • Fashion
  • Doing

• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Wish
  • Enough
  • Just

• My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

  

  Patrick White
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Marriage

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'

  

  Dana Perino
  • Money
  • You
  • United States

• My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Yoga
  • Meditation
  • Cardio

• Going 3-13 is not acceptable.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Going
  • Acceptable

• When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Good
  • Good People

• I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

  Jenny Nimmo
  • Up
  • Children
  • Hope

• Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

  

  John Hurt
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Fear
  • Alone

• I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.

  

  James Patterson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Friends

• When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Done
  • Career
  • Fighting

• The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Imagination