William Butler Yeats Quotes

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodBestManGood ManBelieveBad

I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

Max Brooks

DesertThinkYouRulesFindChoice

My mother was a single mom, and she was a claims adjuster at an insurance company. She actually dropped out of school - she was going to become a registered nurse - because she had to take care of me and my brother.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

MotherSchoolBrotherMeMomCare

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

Sigourney Weaver

MePushPlayKnowActorEverything

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.

Torsten Wiesel

LifeExperienceEnvironmentalEarly

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

Trent Lott

GodRedBlueMediaValuesHollywood

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Robert Dale Owen

LeaderGreatMenFollowDaringMost

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

LearningWisdomAwakeWideSleeps

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

Craig Ferguson

GodMedicineTelevisionImportant

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

Chris Wedge

WinYouGoOfficeMonthGet

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

Clarke Peters

MusicBetterJazzRockRock Music

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

Alice McDermott

WorldReadingPlayBeliefMatters

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

Sheryl Swoopes

AngryHurtEmotionsFirstOutVery

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