William Butler Yeats Quotes

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

William Butler Yeats

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• Remorse

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• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Long
  • Down

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Great
  • Writing
  • You

• I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Good
  • Movie
  • You

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Man
  • Fact
  • Hunter

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Political
  • Story
  • Loss

• If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Feeling
  • Stop
  • Body

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Long
  • Father
  • Mom

• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Respect
  • Never
  • Confidence

• Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Great
  • Together
  • Unknown

• My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Appreciation
  • Express

• Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Love
  • Together
  • Helpful

• I've never had the patience of a teacher.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Teacher
  • Patience

• I was very confused in the beginning about my red carpet appearances and wanted to try every look, be it grungy, girly, punk or bohemian.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Beginning
  • Red
  • Confused

• Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.

  

  David Pratt
  • Time
  • Work
  • Power

• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Luck

• I don't aspire to write like Steve King. Sure, I admire his work, and I think he's a hell of a nice guy; we met shortly after my first Stoker win. I aspire to write like Jonathan Maberry.

  

  Jonathan Maberry
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Nice

• In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Work
  • Luck
  • Frustration