David Whyte Quotes
Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.
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I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one - but I never took it up because I couldn't fit the job in with school and cycling.
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I hope to see London once ere I die.
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As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.
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It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.
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Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
