William Butler Yeats Quotes

I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

William Butler Yeats

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
  • Team
  • Style

• Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Success

• It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Things
  • Secret
  • Name

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • You
  • Like
  • Look

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Working
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  • Waiter

• I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Politics
  • Annoyance

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
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• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Business
  • Management

• I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.

  

  J. E. Buckrose
  • People
  • Bad

• Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

  

  Nas
  • Friends
  • America
  • Friend

• It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Heart
  • Head

• Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

  

  Anne Catherine Emmerich
  • Heart
  • Value
  • Uprightness

• I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Faith