William Butler Yeats Quotes
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
Quotes to Explore
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
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I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.
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When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.
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It will take at least one week for the Justice Department to arrive at a final conclusion on this matter. Therefore, the committee does not anticipate taking any actions with respect to Mrs. Rich for at least one week.
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Manufacturers and sellers acting within the law should not be held responsible for the actions of criminals who misuse their products.
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You will not have any moment of silence.
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I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.
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Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.
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Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.
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The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.
