William Butler Yeats Quotes

Our words must seem to be inevitable.

William Butler Yeats

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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Man

• I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Interested
  • Russia

• I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • God
  • Game
  • Me

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Good
  • Done
  • Reality

• I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Together

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Lucky

• I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Idea

• People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Think
  • Change

• I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • World
  • Smart
  • Intelligent

• Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Up
  • Habit
  • Start

• If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Up
  • Energy

• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.

  

  Edith Widder
  • World
  • Job
  • Water

• Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Financial

• I am not a hypocrite.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Hypocrite

• If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• If you want to be loved, keep your head on your shoulders and feet on the ground. There is nothing wrong in that. I do the same, and others should also follow this motto.

  

  Karan Patel

• Burlesque dancing didn't solve all my post-divorce problems, but what it did do was force me to court myself for a little while.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Divorce

• CEASE to PRAY and thou will BEGIN to SIN.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Sin
  • Praying
  • Cease

• Our words must seem to be inevitable.

  

  William Butler Yeats