William Butler Yeats Quotes
He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.
William Butler Yeats
Quotes to Explore
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
Dana Brunetti
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Youssou N'Dour
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
Dan Quinn
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
Barry Jenkins
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It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
Karl Pilkington
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Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.
Lindy Boggs
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I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.
Peter Krause
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Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died.
C. S. Lewis
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Steadfast as the points of the compass to Mrs. Arbuthnot were the great four facts of life: God, Husband, Home, Duty. She had gone to sleep on these facts years ago, after a period of much misery, her head resting on them as on a pillow; and she had a great dread of being awakened out of so simple and untroublesome a condition.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair.
William Butler Yeats
