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

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• The march of the human mind is slow.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • March
  • Slow

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• 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.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Important
  • Together
  • Laugh

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• 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?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Life
  • Up
  • Boy

• 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'

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Sin
  • Act

• I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Girl
  • Pregnant
  • Hey

• When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Hand
  • Husband
  • Helping

• 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.

  

  Dan Burton
  • Respect
  • Justice
  • Conclusion

• Manufacturers and sellers acting within the law should not be held responsible for the actions of criminals who misuse their products.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Law
  • Actions
  • Products

• You will not have any moment of silence.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Silence
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mean

• What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Opinion
  • Master
  • Desires

• When people change and there is nothing that you can do about it. We change, we hurt our people, we realise, we change again.

  

  Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Hurt
  • Can Do
  • People Change

• Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Stills
  • Gardening
  • Gardener

• Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the European influence, Alexander Archipenko and things of that sort, Jacques Lipchitz to a certain extent, and I was influenced by those things and attempted to do work that emulated their style.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Remember
  • Style
  • Influence

• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  

  Michael Foot
  • Purpose
  • Always
  • Progress

• 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

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Certain
  • Delicate
  • Thunder