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William Butler Yeats Quotes

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Worst Passionate Conviction

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.

Exploration Moral Analysis May Us

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Dreams Truth Knowledge Dream Nothing

I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.

Robert Gottlieb

Life College American Tragedy Never

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Michael Shermer

Experience People Incompetence Fired

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

Change Great Losing Ability Without

The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.

Work Children Joy City Me Mom

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

Women Age Beautiful People Me Think

I will make the final decision on running for governor after my congressional term ends.

Decision Will Final Make Running

When I'm kissing someone, I don't want to feel as though I'm rubbing off all the makeup that's on their face or messing things around. I think natural is better.

Makeup Face Think Better Someone

When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.

Focus Effort Team Win World Victory

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

Age Power Focus Opportunities Young

Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.

Ice Ice Cream Bad Eat Taste Again

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