Kind Quotes

I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.

History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it.

Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as many ways as I can - if all else fails - I tell 'em a joke!

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

I wouldn't say hate, exactly. You're kind of like fungus, Gwen. After a while, you just start growing on people.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

I’m just one of the people who stands on the Kop. They think the same as I do, and I think the same as they do. It’s a kind of marriage of people who like each other.