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William Butler Yeats Quotes

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Wisdom Wise Suffering Wish Would

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Work Nature Mother Environmental Up

The destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey is unlike anything my home state has ever experienced. As long as I live, I'll never forget those images of elderly women waiting in waist-deep water to be rescued.

Home Women Live Water Waiting Long

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

Trying Human Out Human Being Get

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Good Better Way Good Example Spread

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women Power Learn You Nobody Take

At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.

Time Bike Living Ground Pretty Zero

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

Money Nothing Out System Banking

It sounds corny, but I wanted to be the change I wanted to see in the world. I used to have that on my notebook in school.

Change School World See Used Corny

As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.

Peter Landesman

Powerful I Can Task Discourse Shape

You can come after me all day long. I don't care.

Scott Borchetta

Day Me Care Long You Come

With shame be it spoken: by her fall, the Church's liberties have been sacrificed for the sake of temporal advantages. The road to her ruin lay through the sinuous paths of riches: she has been prostituted in the streets to princes; she has conceived iniquity and will bring forth oppression to the undeserving.

Road Church Paths Fall Oppression

Getting out to protest, this is something real and, I would say, something patriotic. Part of the new authoritarianism is to get people to prefer fiction and inaction to reality and action.

Timothy D. Snyder

People Action Reality New Say Real

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