William Butler Yeats Quotes
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats
Quotes to Explore
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I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it's not always easy to find the right balance.
Caroline Dhavernas
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As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,
Kabir
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Well I can understand why men want it to be legal. Obviously they're all hoping they might get to marry me someday. I hate to burst their bubble, but they should just give it up now. Zach Braff doesn't sway that way, you know?
Zach Braff
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I don't know why the leaders of social networks have overlooked the idea of rules. Real-life behavior is becoming more reflective of social media instead of vice versa, and that's a dangerous thing.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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The main thing is, believe in yourself. Reach out and go after it.
Joanna Garcia
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The Nehruvian dream [the ending of poverty and ignorance and inequality of opportunity.] today has become a pungent necessity, inescapable necessity. In 1947, one could say that it was a dream, it was Gandhi's dream also. But now it has become an inescapable necessity for us to translate that dream into practice. And I think that dream cannot be abandoned. We have to pursue it and pursue it in realistic terms. I see that India can do it. And India must do it.
K. R. Narayanan
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I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a wood, when it fell over dead, apparently from sheer temper, because I dared to approach it. It defied me first, and then died. I have never forgotten the horror and shame I experienced when that soft fluffy thing (towards which I had nothing but the most humanitarian motives) fell dead from rage at my feet.
Vita Sackville-West
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Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.
Michel Gondry
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My real motivation is to reach 3:25... I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.
Noureddine Morceli
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Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
William Stafford
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If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
Mahatma Gandhi
