William Butler Yeats Quotes

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

William Butler Yeats

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• Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Want
  • Sex
  • Just Because

• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Up
  • Science
  • Wise

• I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Politics
  • Join

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Hate
  • Wife

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Desire

• Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.

  

  James Surowiecki

• A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

  

  James Mangold
  • Reality

• Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

  

  Marcia Clark

• My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

  

  Phil Mickelson
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Life

• I am not only overwhelmed with excitement to be back in the seat but also to show my support to help raise awareness to end domestic violence and sexual assault by displaying the 'No More' symbol as I pilot the No. 24 car.

  

  Amber Cope
  • Help
  • Support
  • Car

• A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many people are breaking the rules that people don't know what the rules are.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • People
  • Time

• There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!

  

  Andrew Oliver
  • Good
  • Why
  • Couple

• When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Writing

• I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar
  • Peace
  • Safety

• I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

  

  Nicholas Brendon
  • Work
  • Childhood
  • Stutter

• Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.

  

  Betty Williams
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Moments
  • Taken
  • Return

• John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

  

  William Butler Yeats