William Butler Yeats Quotes
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.William Butler Yeats
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian -
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece -
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis -
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen -
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
Zack Snyder
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin -
Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
K. Flay -
Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
Larry Wilcox -
Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson -
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
Caitlin Moran -
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
Illinois Jacquet
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
Mandy Patinkin -
A laugh is a terrible weapon.
Kate O'Brien -
Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
Nate Diaz -
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Young Thug -
Showbiz can be cruel.
Nadia Bjorlin -
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy Butler
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My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.
Joe Meno -
In sober state,Through the sequestered vale of rural life,The venerable patriarch guileless heldThe tenor of his way.
Beilby Porteus -
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
Jodi Rell -
My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'
Al Jarreau -
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
William Butler Yeats