"The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack...."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Feet Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes #Safety Quotes

“The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.”
“All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.”

Source : "Rivers of Blood". BBC Documentary, March 08, 2008.
“It is not who you know it is what you know - If you don't know anything, you won't know anyone”
“If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.”
“Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing.”
“The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. Iâ€™m not trying to hide it, but itâ€™s something youâ€™re not to worry about.”
“Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.”
“The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.”

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