David Whyte Quotes

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodIdentityQuestionShapesAsking

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

Jim Bakker

Looking ForwardLookingForwardLook

We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.

John Boehner

WorldStrongerIsraelThanAlly

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.

Jeremy Rifkin

YouWeedsCornBecauseYourMeans

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

Joel Parkinson

MyselfStartGoBoredMissingGet

My group of friends, we sort of go at each other pretty hard sometimes. And it's half performance, half truth that you can say cutting things to your friends that might be a little true, but as long as you package it in a joke, it becomes a little more palatable.

Andrew Rannells

TruthPerformanceFriendsLongYou

Getting married is great, and I feel really good away from the court, and my private life and stuff is good. But you still need to train and work hard. Like, I didn't go on a honeymoon after we got married; I went to Barcelona and trained for 10 days to get ready for the clay-court season. It's been good, but you still have to put the work in.

Andy Murray

LifeWorkGoodGreatWork HardYou

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

Michael Arrington

ChangeCrazyWorldThinkGeneration

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

John Wesley

HeartMoneyMeHandsFindBurn

The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.

Stephane Hessel

FailureRevolutionEndAmericaCuba

I'm a very objective-driven bloke, so to have a goal in mind and to have something to do is very important to me.

Robert Whittaker

MindMeGoalImportantSomething

I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out and, 14 years later, Czechoslovakia became a free country. So I feel anger, even fury, at this bloody system that ruined so many people's lives for no reason whatsoever.

Martina Navratilova

LifeMotherLiveAngerI AmPeople

The older I get, the more I surf and do more stretches to get ready for the rock show.

Mike McCready

ReadyRockMoreShowGetOlder

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