Top 100 B&w Quotes
#1. [On The Hunger Games success]: It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.
Nina Jacobson
#2. Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.
Aaron Levie
#3. ****NOTE 6-30-2015 --Something weird is going on w/my GR profile. This one isn't attached to INTO THE DIM any more, and the one that is by INTO THE DIM doesn't have any of my friends/comments/info. Not to worry, GR is working on it!! In the meantime...CUPCAKES FOR ALL!!****
Janet B. Taylor
#4. A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#5. It's not a dream,
But the reality that makes our passion
As a lamp shadow - no - no lamp, the sun.
What the world's million lips are thirsting for
Must be substantial somewhere ...
W.B.Yeats
#6. I did not, but i saw a young girl, and she had the walk of a queen.
W.B.Yeats
#7. Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all my ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
W.B.Yeats
#8. We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world,
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
W.B.Yeats
#9. There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#10. Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.
W.B.Yeats
#11. ...no one of mature age cares to make a complete confession of his past life.
W.B. Maxwell
#12. In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#14. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#15. When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#16. 26And then they will see w the Son of Man coming in clouds x with great power and glory. 27And then y he will send out the angels and z gather a his elect from b the four winds, from c the ends of the earth d to the ends of heaven.
Anonymous
#17. I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#18. The Coming of Wisdom with Time
Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
W.B.Yeats
#19. In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#20. may tranquillity walk by his elbow When wandering in the forest, if he love No
W.B.Yeats
#21. Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#22. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
W.B.Yeats
#23. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#24. I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#25. Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
W.B.Yeats
#26. Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#27. The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#28. Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it.
The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.
Douglas Adams
#29. A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#30. The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue
W.B.Yeats
#31. There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
B.W. Powe
#32. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#33. The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed
The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone.
W.B.Yeats
#35. From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#36. Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#37. [The banshee (from ban [bean], a woman, and shee [sidhe], a fairy) is an attendant fairy that follows the old families, and none but them, and wails before a death.
W.B.Yeats
#38. And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#39. The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#40. And yet this does not touch the kernel of the problem. Human advancement is not a mere question of almsgiving, but rather of sympathy and cooperation among classes who would scorn charity.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#41. The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#42. Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
B.W. Powe
#43. The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense,
else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W.E.B. Du Bois
#44. How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
W.B.Yeats
#45. May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
B.W. Powe
#46. It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#47. Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
W.B.Yeats
#48. I had the good sense even then to realize patting oneself on the back is a waste of time. Besides, there are much better places to pat oneself if one must, indeed, pat.
W.B. Keckler
#49. Anyone who (dis)likes G. W. Bush, but (dis)likes B. H. Obama, is either completely delusional or a complete idiot.
Michel Templet
#50. Before me floats an image, man or shade,
Shade more than man, more image than a shade;
For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy-cloth
May unwind the winding path;
A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
Breathless mouths may summon;
("Byzantium")
W.B.Yeats
#51. One ever feels his twoness,
an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strenth alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#52. I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#53. I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)
Susan B. Anthony
#54. God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone.
W.B.Yeats
#55. Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.
W.B.Yeats
#56. It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
W.E.B. Du Bois
#57. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B.Yeats
#58. Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
B.W. Powe
#59. High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that intrigue me more than the Souls of White Folk.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#60. Before us lies eternity our souls
are love and a continual farewell
W.B.Yeats
#61. For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
W.B.Yeats
#62. Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
W.B.Yeats
#63. The kings of the old time are dead;
The wandering earth herself may be
Only a sudden flaming word,
In clanging space a moment heard,
Troubling the endless reverie.
W.B.Yeats
#64. Would America have been America without her Negro people?
W.E.B. Du Bois
#65. You have accused me of upsetting order by my free drinks, and I have showed you that there is a more dreadful fermentation in the Sermon on the Mount than in my beer-barrels. Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence.
W.B.Yeats
#66. All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it
W.B.Yeats
#67. What can be explained is not poetry.
W.B.Yeats
#68. Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#69. One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
W.B.Yeats
#70. But what of black women? ... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#71. And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
W.B.Yeats
#73. What's the use of held note or a held line
That cannot be assailed for reassurance?
W.B.Yeats
#74. I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.
They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
W.B.Yeats
#75. The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#76. The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
B.W. Powe
#77. There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#78. Rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination
W.B.Yeats
#79. O bid me mount and sail up there
Amid the cloudy wrack,
For Peg and Meg and Paris' love
That had so straight a back,
Are gone away, and some that stay
Have changed their silk for sack.
W.B.Yeats
#80. I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#82. My wretched dragon is perplexed.
W.B.Yeats
#83. All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#84. My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#85. O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
W.B.Yeats
#86. And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love's bitter mystery;
W.B.Yeats
#87. If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.
W.B.Yeats
#88. The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
W.B.Yeats
#90. But he heard high up in the air
A piper piping away,
And never was piping so sad,
And never was piping so gay.
W.B.Yeats
#91. Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.
W.B.Yeats
#92. Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said
It was the dream itself enchanted me
("The Circus Animal's Desertion")
W.B.Yeats
#93. For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#95. One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
W.B.Yeats
#96. Everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
W.B.Yeats
#97. All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
W.B.Yeats
#98. What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
W.B.Yeats
#99. ....tradition gives the one thing many shapes.
W.B.Yeats
#100. One had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain
Because the mountain grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.
- Memory
W.B.Yeats
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