William Butler Yeats Quotes

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

William Butler Yeats

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Taken
  • Photography
  • Modeling

• I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Love
  • Sports
  • Adventure

• It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• 'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Difficult

• They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Better
  • Garden

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Hollywood

• The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Learn

• There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Team
  • Always

• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Teacher

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Youth

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Goal
  • Broken

• I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Pretty

• Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

  

  Austin Grossman
  • Life

• People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• I cannot but look upon the strange Instinct of this noisome and troublesome Creature a Louse, of searching out foul and nasty Clothes to harbor and breed in, as an Effect of divine Providence, design'd to deter Men and Women from Sluttishness and Sordidness.

  

  John Ray
  • Men
  • Women
  • Design

• But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Book

• Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Book
  • Action
  • Design