David Whyte Quotes

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifePeopleLanguageQuietLiving

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

Jo Nesbo

I AmMeLostNowMythFootballer

I don't check for Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don't wake me up in the morning. I don't care about them, and they certainly don't drive the conversations I'm thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people.

Jesse Williams

MorningDayLiePeopleMeDrive

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Mavis Staples

FatherNowOverYearsOutGone

Remember to play after every storm.

Mattie Stepanek

StormRememberPlayEveryAfter

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.

Jeb Bush

ManI AmBrotherMomLookAlive

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?

Sofia Vassilieva

WorkI AmBreakfastMeEatingYou

The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power.

Simon Schama

PowerReligionWritingBibleNow

I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.

Ronald D. Moore

JoyDoingWantPleasurePaidGet

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

MindBodyLaborDifficultiesDoes

I just want to continue to learn as an actor and as a person.

Julia Garner

LearnPersonWantActorJust

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Judi Dench

TruthPeopleNothingAlwaysSeem

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

Jayson Blair

GoodTruthI AmUglyTruth IsDoing

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