William Butler Yeats Quotes
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.William Butler Yeats
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
O. J. Simpson -
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
Taylor Momsen -
I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
Ian Watson -
A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
Patrick Leahy -
If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
Adam Grant -
Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
Tamsin Egerton
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
Hailey Bieber -
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
Nancy McKeon -
I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
Pat Summitt -
I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
Carl Lewis -
I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
Rachel Platten
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
R. Kelly -
The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
Cameron Winklevoss -
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Oscar Levant -
I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
Damien Chazelle -
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro -
You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
Manuel Moroun
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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
He uttered a coarse expression which I wouldn't have thought he would have known. It just shows that you can bury yourself in the country and still somehow acquire a vocabulary. No doubt one picks up things from the neighbours - the vicar, the local doctor, the man who brings the milk, and so on.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.
John Muir -
My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.
Francis Asbury -
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
William Butler Yeats