William Butler Yeats Quotes

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

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• I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Open
  • Engagement
  • Dialogue

• You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

  

  Wale
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Personality
  • Social
  • Farmers

• Ill give you a definite maybe.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Give
  • Maybe

• The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Truth

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Kind
  • Understanding
  • Yourself

• Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Think
  • Opinion

• Music is like my security blanket.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Security
  • Blanket

• Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Benefits
  • Tell

• I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • People
  • Love
  • London

• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Important
  • Marriage
  • Expectation

• When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Commitment

• The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Woman
  • Right
  • Gun

• The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Power
  • Together

• I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Up
  • Think
  • Running

• Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

  

  Ernest Jennings Ford
  • Written
  • Recorded

• To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Earth
  • Eternal

• Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

  

  Alissa Nutting
  • Writing
  • Morals
  • Las Vegas

• Our Lord Jesus Christ, a little before his departure, commissioned his apostles to Go, and teach all nations; or, as another evangelist expresses it, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. This commission was as extensive as possible, and laid them under obligation to disperse themselves into every country of the habitable globe, and preach to all the inhabitants, without exception, or limitation. They accordingly went forth in obedience to the command, and the power of God evidently wrought with them.

  

  William Carey
  • World
  • Country
  • Jesus

• The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Fashion
  • Secret
  • Hollywood

• Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Difficult
  • Secret
  • Known