William Butler Yeats Quotes

Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.

William Butler Yeats

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• I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Blue

• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

  

  Randall Park
  • Audience
  • Kid
  • Against

• The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Lost
  • London

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Beliefs

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Money
  • Blame

• Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • Help
  • Woman

• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Short
  • Life Is Short

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Change
  • Human

• The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Power
  • Political
  • Faith

• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Real
  • Know

• We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Solutions
  • Myths

• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• We just sent some footage to ABC Primetime, who is doing a segment that alleges to tell our side of the story, and in that, a week before she became ill, there's Eliza Jane at her friend's birthday party, blowing, over and over again, a party horn - the one with the long, curly thing that sticks out when you blow it and retracts when you breathe in - over and over and over again...this child that, a few weeks later, would be said to have died of fatal pneumonia.

  

  Christine Maggiore
  • Child
  • Story
  • Died

• With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • Happy

• Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Law
  • Beauty
  • Should