William Butler Yeats Quotes
The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.
William Butler Yeats
Quotes to Explore
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
Victor Cousin
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If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
Victoria Osteen
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Ouida
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
Damien Chazelle
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
Becky Lynch
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You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.
Yani Tseng
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think I look great in pretty much everything... kidding! For the red carpet, I like to do really natural eyes and a nice sleek ponytail. Sometimes I'm into a really dark rouge, purple bold lip.
Barbara Palvin
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
Kangana Ranaut
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter
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I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.
Chester Gould
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For a decade, I had been studying a transparent worm, the C. elegans. I immediately thought, if you could put the G.F.P. gene into C. elegans, you'd then be able to see biological processes in live animals. Until then, we had to kill them and prepare their tissues chemically to visualize proteins or active genes within cells.
Martin Chalfie
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
Warren Giles
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Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,
Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.
My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.
William Butler Yeats
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The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.
William Butler Yeats
