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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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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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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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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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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One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.
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Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you'd feel exactly the same.
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I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)
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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.
