William Butler Yeats Quotes

Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

William Butler Yeats

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• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Done
  • Power
  • Dream

• I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• 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
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Sports
  • Model
  • Same

• You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Why
  • Understand

• Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Family
  • She
  • Bad

• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Kindness
  • Late

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Want
  • Focus
  • Three

• When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Good
  • Why
  • Air

• Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

  

  William Landay
  • Damage

• It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

  

  Sofia Kovalevskaya
  • Soul
  • Impossible
  • Poet

• I saw a feeding about a lion for plants, I saw leaves of luxuriant growth. I saw a branch with equal blossoms. Did I not see a prince? most liberal his customs, I saw the ruler of Cathraeth beyond the plains Be my oak the gleaming spirit of the Cymry.

  

  Taliesin
  • Growth
  • Prince
  • Lion

• The real point is that all this is happening without rules and boundaries and thought and legislation. The information is now so unlimited and so discretionary, and the privacy issues spring from that lack of boundaries.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • Real
  • Thought
  • Spring

• Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Way
  • Question
  • Streams

• Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Tree