Be Kind Quotes

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.

I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night.

Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are.

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.

I'm the kind of person that thinks that you should get what you deserve in what you show, with actions, not with words.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

You never know what kind of impact you can have on someone by just saying hello.

In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.

I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.

There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.

Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.