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David Whyte Quotes

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: 1955

Topics

Past Control Regret Story Present

We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

Society Problems Problem Easy Look

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.

Waiting Wait Process Fast Empty

If you represent a fantasy for the people who actually go to the cinema, they grab that and go with it; therefore, for the rest of their lives, they actually identify you with a certain thinking - a certain philosophy. There are many actors who want to pursue that same thought in real life as well, and that's perfectly acceptable.

Amitabh Bachchan

Life People Rest Thinking Thought

Diversity is crucial.

Diversity Crucial

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Love Music Falling In Love I Can Two

I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.

People Generation Young Write Seen

I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.

Beautiful Birds Trees Fish Right Up

A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

Love Great People Me Warm Giving

What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

Challenge Story Greed Violence Worth

Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.

Music Children Door Meet Nothing

I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

Think Gone Here Would Still Public

'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.

You London Staring Everyone Up Most

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