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David Whyte Quotes

It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: 1955

Topics

Life Think Present Living Human

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Jim Goldberg

History Immigrant Single Needs Part

I want to be that type of guy - I want to be Kobe Bryant. I want to be Tim Duncan. I want to be Dirk Nowitzki - stay with one team my whole career.

Joel Embiid

Team Career Want Guy Stay Whole

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

Meles Zenawi

Believe Person I Believe Never Over

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

Wisdom Water Fall Stone Away Wears

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Jonathan Swift

Heart Money Wise Person Head Should

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.

Bobby Rahal

Create Never Complacent Tried Were

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

Anthony Hopkins

Work Know Want Fine Like Intensity

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Swami Sivananda

Happiness Alone Best End Way

There are physicists, and there are string theorists. Of course the string theorists are physicists, but the string theorists in general will not attend lectures on experimental physics. They will not be terribly concerned about the results of experiments. They will talk to one another.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Physics Results Will Talk General

My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.

Thomas Keneally

Father Mother Time Brother People

Most nervous I've ever been is probably the 2007 Walker Cup. I was a little boy playing with these 8 or 9 other guys that were the best amateurs in the country.

Rickie Fowler

Best Country Nervous Boy Little Cup

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.

Renee Zellweger

Myself Day Clouds Texas Remember