William Butler Yeats Quotes
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
Quotes to Explore
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.
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The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.
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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
