Quotes & Sayings About Ireland William Butler Yeats

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance. — William Butler Yeats

I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die. — Diplo

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. — William Butler Yeats

If a person is saved, and still continues to live according to his former worldly way of life, he is
not only destroying himself and his salvation - he is also destroying his whole life. — Sunday Adelaja

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars. — Rumi

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. — William Butler Yeats

Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead — William Butler Yeats

I think I was drawn to acting just as a way of getting noticed. — Michael Rispoli

All clear cut ideas turn out to be wrong. — T. E. Hulme

Douglas Hyde's Beside the Fire, William Butler Yeats's The Celtic Twilight, Lady Augusta Gregory's Visions and Beliefs of the West of Ireland, and Standish O'Grady's collections not only established Irish folklore as one of the great oral literature traditions of Western civilization, but also provided an immense source of pride for the growing Irish Nationalist movement. Even — Ryan Hackney

Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it. — Bill Hybels

Part of her wanted to run. Never mind how flowing water was bound to take her to people eventually, all that was likely just a crock of Little House of the Prairie shit. — Stephen King

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other. — Jose Saramago

Biology doesn't matter, the Christians argued, because this body we live in is not ultimately real; history doesn't matter, they said, because God's time is different and superior to man's anyhow; and forget cause and effect, forget what you've been told about the physical world, because there is heaven and there is hell and there is this green earth in between, and you are always alive in one of the three places. — Russell Banks

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody. — Floyd Abrams

When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up. — Shelby Harris

She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it? — Soren Kierkegaard

Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
All that was said in Ireland is a lie
Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die. — William Butler Yeats