William Butler Yeats Quotes

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

William Butler Yeats

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• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Trying
  • Single
  • Day

• Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Single

• There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Fashion

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• Example is always more efficacious than precept.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • World

• Rules for Axioms. I. Not to omit any necessary principle without asking whether it is admittied, however clear and evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that are perfectly evident in themselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • May

• Som-Som would later learn that the girl's name was Book. Ambiguous and suggestive sentences swirled out from the maroon bud of her nipple. Verses of elegant and cryptic passion followed the orbit of her left eye. Her fingers dripped with poetry.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Passion

• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Manipulation

• It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Different
  • School
  • Remember

• I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

  

  Kevin Bacon

• One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss

• If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would want to write my first original musical, it would hands-down have been Pasek and Paul.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Future

• There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Art

• People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • People

• Love is inevitable, and there’s really nothing you can do about it; there’s really no choice.

  

  Nicholas Petricca
  • Love
  • Choice
  • Inevitable

• I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Watching
  • Going To

• Once you get in the ring and fight you are not even thinking about 'Oh it's going to be too early for me.' It's in the morning, but to me, I'm just ready to fight, to get It on. To show the world what I can do when I'm in top shape having the best training camp ever and when I come in mentally and physically ready to show everybody what they can expect from me.

  

  Brandon Rios
  • Training
  • Fight
  • Ready

• Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

  

  William Butler Yeats