William Butler Yeats Quotes

My wretched dragon is perplexed.

William Butler Yeats

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• I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Always
  • Literature
  • New

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Playing

• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Care
  • Mistakes

• I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Think
  • Want
  • Myself

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• Custom reconciles us to everything.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Everything
  • U.S.
  • Custom

• As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • Real
  • Reflection

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Look
  • Part
  • Fabulous

• If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Change
  • Me
  • Stronger

• It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Comedy
  • Write
  • Sketch

• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I love being brown, so I love using Guerlain Terracotta Bronzing Powder. I use it everywhere: my forehead, my cheekbones, a little bit by my chin. It gives me a golden balance that I really like. I also use the Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector for my highlighter right underneath my eye. It's a pretty color - it's not too much and not too little.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Pretty
  • Balance
  • Color

• All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • America
  • Past
  • Purpose

• Climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life, and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.

  

  Alberto Villoldo
  • Life
  • Divine
  • Informs

• Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Work
  • Balance
  • Work Hard

• My wretched dragon is perplexed.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Dragons