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'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
-
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
-
You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
-
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.
-
I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
-
Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.
-
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.
-
When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.
-
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.
