David Whyte Quotes
In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
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In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.
