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The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart ... — William Butler Yeats
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart ... — William Butler Yeats
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
— Samuel Butler
The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.
— Diana Butler Bass
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
— Samuel Butler
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
— Octavia E. Butler
The person you are when no one's looking, or when no one else knows who you are ... that's the person you really are!
— Dori Hillestad Butler
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears
but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. — Samuel Butler
but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. — Samuel Butler
At the heart of all romanticism is suffering
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.
— Gerard Butler
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
— Samuel Butler
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
— William Butler Yeats
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
— Octavia Butler
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
— William Butler Yeats
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
— Nicholas Butler
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
— William Butler Yeats
Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
— Geezer Butler
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
— Win Butler
However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.
— Geezer Butler
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
— Samuel Butler
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.
— Geezer Butler
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
— Octavia E. Butler
The Dunns must of felt this when Tracy vanished. Crazy as they are, crazy as she was, they must
— Octavia E. Butler
Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
— William Butler Yeats
Balance hangs in the fingers of Peace
— James Butler
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
— William Butler Yeats
The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really.
— Gerard Butler
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
— William Butler Yeats
I know, although when looks meet
I tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone ... — William Butler Yeats
I tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone ... — William Butler Yeats
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
— William Butler Yeats
When we have blamed the wind we can blame love ...
— William Butler Yeats
Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
— William Butler Yeats
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
— William Butler Yeats
O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet. — William Butler Yeats
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet. — William Butler Yeats
The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.
— Judith Butler
The coarse impudence of Rhett Butler. But, if he possessed
— Margaret Mitchell
I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.
— Win Butler
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
— Samuel Butler
Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you.
-Raphael — Nalini Singh
-Raphael — Nalini Singh
While on that old grey stone I sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy. — William Butler Yeats
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy. — William Butler Yeats
The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.
— Jack Butler Yeats
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
— Samuel Butler
If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.
— Geezer Butler
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
— Octavia E. Butler
The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.
— Gerard Butler
When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.
— Austin Butler
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
— William Butler Yeats
The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.
— William Butler Yeats
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
— Samuel Butler
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
— Joseph Butler
Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)
— Winston Churchill
Jaysus, you must be the most nosey little shite I have ever come across in my bleeding life.
— Eden Butler
With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.
— Diana Butler Bass
And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
— William Butler Yeats
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
— Samuel Butler
stepped away from it. What sort of morbid man constructed a butler out of paper? Was there no one else to answer the door? "Do
— Charlie N. Holmberg
What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?
— William Butler Yeats
Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know - it's a hard road.
— Geezer Butler
In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army.
— Smedley D. Butler
Please, if you would," the butler said, "no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone?" -Fritz
— J.R. Ward
Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
— Judith Butler
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.
— Win Butler
I do not relish leaving home, leaving my children, leaving the familiarity of my bed, my coffee maker, my slippers, but I do love hotels.
— Nickolas Butler
Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.
— Joseph Butler
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
— Samuel Butler
My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.
— Carrie Butler
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
— Samuel Butler
Anything else, Butler?"
"The cosh, sir. — Eoin Colfer
"The cosh, sir. — Eoin Colfer
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
— Samuel Butler
why can't I do what others have done - ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world.
— Octavia E. Butler
The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.
— Samuel Butler
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
— Samuel Butler
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
— Nicholas M. Butler
What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.
— Win Butler
O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life.
— Jim Carter
Is this the part where you tell me he'll come around?" "Hell, no." At least Phil Butler was an honest man. Five
— S.E. Jakes
My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
— William Butler Yeats
I thought the butler always did it," someone remarked under their breath.
— Carlene O'Connor
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
— Samuel Butler
Daddy's the only man I know," he said softly, "who cares as much about giving his word to a black as to a white.
— Octavia E. Butler
We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
— Win Butler
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
— William Butler Yeats
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
— Joseph Butler
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
— William Butler Yeats
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand ... — William Butler Yeats
Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand ... — William Butler Yeats
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.
— Octavia E. Butler
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
— Octavia Butler
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
— Octavia E. Butler
I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
— William Butler Yeats