I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots
William Butler Yeats
Related I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort tha... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats... HOWARD NEMEROV I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little s... W.B. YEATS I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negro... BAYARD RUSTIN Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance! DEYTH BANGER We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Many women have made great men; and just as many has destroyed them KEVIN I.E2 GBOBOH All my work organization have been destroyed by the search, ... Basically I have to start from zero. ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE Who Goes With Fergus? Who will go drive with Fergus now, And pierce the deep wood's ... W.B. YEATS Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes. HUMPHRY DAVY I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends! UNKNOWN I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded. RAINN WILSON Trick to getting something is to pretend you already have it. ANGEL ORTIZ Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be dest... ANTHONY HECHT Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... C. JOYBELL C. Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA That’s not fair! Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo... JOHN M SHEEHAN Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twiligh... AUSTIN CLARKE The buildings have unsafe air to breathe, pervasive mold growing, and mechanical systems that were c... DONALD R. SMITHBURG Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. WILL SELF I had this child, and it destroyed my family. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do
something crazy to remember your alive! NEIL OLSSON An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere amon... W.B. YEATS If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. CARL SAGAN Put pieces of the information together. The bunker had destroyed chemical munitions. We destroyed th... BERNARD ROSTKER Most people, their lives have been pretty much destroyed by the time they get to us. WALT MILLER Everyday fall in love with being alive MIMI NOVIC I have learned to delegate. GWEN STEFANI One is called upon to approach and realize and complete the monstrousness, and everyone has some suc... THOMAS BERNHARD Thousands of family pets left homeless by Katrina and Rita are facing hunger, still wandering near t... DAVID MEYER I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort ... LINDA HAMILTON I have never seen a more impressive display of heart and desire. I may just have to resign now. JASON KERR And how many a town have We destroyed which exulted in its means of subsistence, so these are their ... QURAN We've destroyed iraq, we've destroyed any credibility we have in the world. JIM LEONARD I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Gui... DANIEL ABRAHAM I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position s... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE At the last second, we realized we had made a mistake, so we pulled the cards, destroyed them by cut... CLAY LURASCHI This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money a... ALICE WALKER A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed. CASEY NEISTAT I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's... TONY FERNANDES Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco... AKIROQ BROST All I need is you even though I don't know if I can have you. FATMA ALFALASI If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening. VERONICA PURCELL Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. BENJAMIN DISRAELI Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. BENJAMIN DISRAELI I inherited this country when I was only a child, Nahuseresh. I have held it. I have fought down reb... MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Islamic fundamentalists could never have toppled Saddam Hussein by themselves. Instead they enraged ... YUVAL NOAH HARARI [...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?" "Perhaps,"said Apollo, ... WALTER M. MILLER JR. Mis-define the law of brotherly love by giving men a claim on their neighbors and you have destroyed... FREDERICK NYMEYER I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles o... HUBERT H. HUMPHREY I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles o... HUBERT HUMPHREY If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, t... FATOS NANO Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla... WALLACE STEVENS Never underestimate the power of giving a book! CARMELA DUTRA The most important shipwrecks in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, I would say probably 95... JOHN GIFFORD Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have? ANTHONY T. HINCKS Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed t... SUSANNA CLARKE I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. AESCHYLUS If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death. BILL PARCELLS Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy i... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have... LOU HOLTZ Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be... MYLES MUNROE The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere a... OLIVIA THIRLBY Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home? ALEXANDER THE GREAT The war in my country has destroyed every one I have ever loved. ENISA MEDJEDOVIC Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed... H.L. MENCKEN Liars, hypocrites and mosquitoes destroyed more souls than all the dictators DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Father never approved of my toys Saw them as child's playthings I was a child T... T.P. LOUISE Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire... CONFUCIUS It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ... WENDELL BERRY I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. ALLEN GINSBERG O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on. JOHN GAY You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy ... SARAH DESSEN I don't want to see the habitat destroyed or disturbed by a placing a larger building there. JAMES COLE Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes LORD CHESTERFIELD We have destroyed the dinosaur. HAROLD WASHINGTON If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM I have spent my whole life preparing to be William Wallace’s wife. The choices I make are defined ... DEIRDRE-ELIZABETH PARKER Jesus said the weeds would grow with the wheat until the Judgement," Dietrich answered, "so one find... MICHAEL FLYNN To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more. LORRIN L. LEE One day, we will realize how the virtual world have destroyed the quality of parenthood and childhoo... MARICEL CONSOLACION
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And her fat... WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,
When at the same moment she had on a dress
Whi... WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the ... WILLIAM FRANCIS BUTLER Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,When at the same moment she had on a dressWhich cost ... WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Really and truly -- I've nothing to wear. WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER