David Whyte Quotes
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
-
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
-
In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
-
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
-
I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
-
To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
-
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
-
There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
-
'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
-
I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
-
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
-
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
-
My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
-
It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
-
I always have the impression that I write the same book.
-
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
-
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
-
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
-
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
-
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my abusive mail - sentencing me to exquisite Oriental tortures and relegating me to hell-fire and damnation -comes from self-admitted Catholics.
-
In all honesty it was easier to believe it in cool Long Island for its very outrageousness where nobody believed anything very seriously than in hot Carolina where everybody was a Christian and found unbelief unbelievable.
-
You touch her skin And then you think That she is beautiful But she don't mean a thing to me
-
I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
-
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
