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William Butler Yeats Quotes

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Men Wife Child Comfort Desire Drink

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

Relationship Important Australia More

Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.

Angela Duckworth

Training Grit Teachers Matter More

If you're going away, be sure to cancel the paper, the milk, and the laundry pickup. Remove the fresh stuff from the ice box, lock the windows and doors, and phone the cops and tell them how long you'll be gone so they'll keep an eye out for burglars.

Eye Doors Long Ice You Phone

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

Song You Down Kind Write Piano

I've always enjoyed things going at a nice pace, nothing too fast, nothing too crazy.

Crazy Fast Nice Nothing Always Pace

I simply love writing good stories; that's my passion.

Love Good Passion Writing Stories

I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.

Trust Doing Say Believing Conviction

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

Water Singing You Sometimes Why

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

Government People Rich Charity Want

The Palestinians should have understood by now that what they haven't gotten today they won't be given tomorrow.

Today Tomorrow Now Understood Should

You get to crack the code of the play. You get to really pick at it and see, 'What is the story that we're telling?' 'What are the clues in the text that I can find that will help inform what story we're telling?' It's almost like a detective mystery.

Story Help Mystery You Find Play

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

School Think Questions Year Settle

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