David Whyte Quotes

Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FutureRegretAttentionTideNew

The challenge with Donald Trump is that he'll deny things he said the day before or even in the same interview. And then sometimes when you try and talk about a fact that he misstated or something that he said out loud that he now disagrees with himself on, it's very frustrating.

John Dickerson

ChallengeDayYouDonald TrumpSaid

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

John O'Neill

PaintingYouLookCreateFeathers

I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'

John Lydon

MeYouDownKnowNiceSay

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

Angus T. Jones

CareerActingKnowWantReally

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

Jeffrey Tambor

CharacterYouActingWonderfulStuck

I am so blessed and lucky.

Andy Grammer

I AmBlessedLuckyAm

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.

Steve Martin

WomanMeStandSheOverBreak

Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

ModernDictatorsCopiedSaddam

I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've been studying some tape of James Brown and different people.

Trombone Shorty

BrotherPeopleBetterBecomeBeen

You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

Robert Taft

YouKnowHimDislikeGetReally

There is an increasing push to compartmentalize faith separately from our life in the public square - and it's not possible - at least, it's not possible if we continue the American tradition of true individual freedom, which also implies individual responsibility. Without an objective moral standard, that's not possible.

Mike Huckabee

LifeFaithFreedomResponsibility

Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.

Michael Socha

CharacterYouOwnHoldSomething

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