David Whyte Quotes

Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: 1955

Topics

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You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.

Robert Smith

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I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

Matteo Manassero

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I became the messenger who had to be killed.

Anita Hill

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There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in the way in which Truffaut's camera looks at his beloved city.

Amitava Kumar

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At 'WrestleMania,' I can show my 100 percent or more.

Shinsuke Nakamura

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I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Robby Benson

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There are certain people you don't have to worry about on set.

Michael Pena

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It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view.

Mohsin Hamid

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Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

Loretta Young

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I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

Jayson Blair

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I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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For a head of state presiding over a ruined economy, an active army with its low wages is god-sent: All he's got to do is provide it with an objective.

Joseph Brodsky

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