William Butler Yeats Quotes

I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Know
  • Week
  • France

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• Every human being makes mistakes.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Human
  • Mistakes
  • Human being

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Years
  • New
  • Israel

• Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Study
  • Try
  • Computers

• It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Impact
  • Hunting
  • Resolution

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country

• Ἄτης ἄρουρα θάνατον ἐκκαρπίζεται.

  

  Aeschylus

• People often think they would have made the noblest choice, but when they find themselves actually in such a situation, they discover matters aren’t quite so simple.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • People
  • Simple

• Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Dance
  • Gossip
  • Hamlet

• We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • World
  • Men
  • Free

• Aquaman is one of the greatest characters at DC Comics and one of my favorites.

  

  Geoff Johns

• Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

  

  John Webster
  • She
  • Wise
  • Lust

• Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Work

• Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

  

  Simone Weil
  • Progress
  • Idea
  • Poison

• I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Missing
  • Kissing
  • Dear