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David Whyte Quotes

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: 1955

Topics

Honesty Humility Honesty Is Where

I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.

John Cameron Mitchell

Comfort Become Out Monk Take Come

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Stephen Hawking

Positive Myself Me Say Others Get

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'

Library Thought Said Legs Going Off

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

Life Positive Live Mind Negative

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Beware Above Bugs Only Code Tried

Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo.

Face Tattoo Will Years Somebody Arm

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

Christopher Hitchens

Experience Pain Anxiety Long Illness

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.

Yourself You Living Actor Bedroom

My parents met when they were 16 and bonded over the antiwar movement.

Parents Over Movement Met Were

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Me Writing Impossible Feel I Feel

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Susan B. Anthony

Struggle Think Die Liberty Hard

I am not a performing seal. In your writing, you are tapping into the part that is 'the best' in you. But what you are also filters through in your writing your prejudices, your bitterness. I am not a pretentious person.

Best I Am Writing You Person

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