William Butler Yeats Quotes
A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.
Quotes to Explore
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I don't like allegories.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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My parents really encouraged me.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.
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A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.
