Kind Quotes

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

I kind of think we have too many guns in this country.

Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.

God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind.

A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

I followed my wanderlust. It bruised me sometimes, and took me to all kinds of highs. Now that my thirst is slaked, I get to start anew.

My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.

I breath wrestling. It's in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk.

God is found by those, With kind hearts.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

I'm always one who will lash out at anyone hurts my friends, viciously, kind of. I'm very protective of the people I love.

I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that's kind of it. I think it's enough.

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside.

What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?

Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.

There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life... and fights to defend pride.

Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at least the only kind of power I’m interested in.

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

So for those of you falling in love, Keep it kind, keep it good, keep it right. Throw yourself in the midst of danger, But keep one eye open at night.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.

Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.