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William Butler Yeats Quotes

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: irish
Birth: June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939

Topics

Heart Sacrifice Long Stone May Make

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

You Now Right Next See Guy

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Go Know Used Word Most Counts

I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The rest of us enjoyed eating - on special occasions - chicken or fish or mutton.

Family Mother Eating Rest Fish Up

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

Great Art Mistakes Decisions Moments

I take them both seriously - I don't particularly want to be an 'actor-musician.' I want to play the great challenging parts, to be right for the part, rather than just, 'Oh, he can play the fiddle.'

Great Play Want Seriously Right He

I'm a growth-is-good Democrat.

It takes a lot of work to be a great mother, a great daughter, and a great friend. All those things take effort, and I think, after having my daughter, she opened up this fearlessness within me, and I'm setting an example for her.

Christina Milian

Work Friend Mother Daughter Great

The soul is joined to and is separated from the body. Therefore, the soul is corporeal.

Soul Body Separated Therefore Joined

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

People Strong Rock Right Punk Where

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

Bad Lost Subway Got Waitress Really

It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mothers to assign child care to others and enter the labor force.

Phyllis Schlafly

Mistake Child Care Tax Labor Others

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.

Family Home Live Better Forest You

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