David Whyte Quotes

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HonestyRelationshipTruthWanting

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Joe Lonsdale

BetterKnowUpIndustryWhoShake

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Mel Brooks

WinStandYouRhetoricNeverTrade

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Robert Kiyosaki

LovePeopleBlameLame

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

Meryl Streep

SpaceEarthThingsLikeSuspended

I love representing Minnesota in the Senate.

Amy Klobuchar

LoveMinnesotaSenateI Love

Typing with your fingers or thumbs is sooooo 2012. I tweeted that earlier in the year. I type with my eyes. Not only that, I navigate my computer, create and play music, keep a calendar, conference call, lead web X meetings, text and, obviously, tweet with my eyes.

Steve Gleason

MusicEyesMeetingsYearPlayLead

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

Ama Ata Aidoo

I AmBecauseAfricanAm

Our founding fathers declared independence from Great Britain because they were dissatisfied with the laws and policies that they believed abridged their freedoms. Had they taken the stance that many want our professional athletes to take - to just shut up and honor your country no matter what - we would be living in British colonies.

Stan Van Gundy

GreatIndependenceHonorProfessional

It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.

Stockard Channing

FunnyFriendBeginningMeDinner

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Tony Wilson

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An approach that phases in congressional term limits reconciles the self-interest of members of Congress with the public's desire to see these changes enacted and gives us the best chance to make term limits a reality.

Ron DeSantis

BestLimitsChanceRealityDesire

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

Mike McGavick

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