William Butler Yeats Quotes

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AloneLightShadowShadowsLights

I don't like kale, so I don't eat it.

Maye Musk

EatLike

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

John Owen

ElephantDivineSwimWhereMayLamb

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

Michael Caine

UpScreenThoughHeAroundFinest

The unspoken contract between ruler and subject is that in return for safety, prosperity, and prestige, the Russians entrust power and cede democratic freedoms to their leaders.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

PowerSafetyProsperityContract

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

Tracy Kidder

PeopleWritingThinkYouSayTeach

I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.

Rollo May

ScienceManSeriouslyStudyImage

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

Joseph Rotblat

PeaceWorldHelpUsCitizensThird

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

CharacterBestMedicineNever Forget

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Christopher Durang

TheatreUpWantingWriterGrew

I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

Wladimir Klitschko

DisciplineYourselfTrainingTalent

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

Tom Allen

LifeOceanAnimalEnergyPlantLand

Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.

Richard P. Feynman

ExperienceCloudsSmallWavesYou

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