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

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• People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• In the beginning was the Word.In the end...past honor, past life, past caring...In the end will be the Word.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Past
  • Beginning

• As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Watching TV mum said," Do you miss your dad?" And I said," Who?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Dad
  • Said
  • Missing

• I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.

  

  Alveda King
  • Time
  • God
  • Pray

• I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Bad
  • Husband
  • I Think

• When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Women
  • Power
  • Age

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Sometimes

• As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,

  

  Kabir
  • Long
  • Die
  • Teacher

• 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
  • Up
  • Men
  • Why

• 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
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• The main thing is, believe in yourself. Reach out and go after it.

  

  Joanna Garcia
  • Believe

• 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
  • Dream
  • Ending
  • Inequality

• If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Grandmother
  • Begin
  • Civilize

• In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

  

  Steven Weinberg
  • Interesting
  • Simplicity
  • Complexity

• If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hate
  • Peace
  • Greed

• Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

  

  Solon
  • Laws
  • Creature
  • Caught

• Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Draws
  • Hills
  • Companion