Kind Quotes - page 12

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain. View quote
Anthony the Great
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. View quote
Manuel Puig
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. View quote
Manuel Puig
Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me. View quote
Mark Haddon
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind. View quote
Martha Beck
We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think? View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world's worst kind of pain. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. View quote
Meg Cabot
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories. (Melina Marchetta)
It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. View quote
Norman Spinrad
When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives. View quote
Rebecca Wells
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. View quote
Rachel Kushner
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works. View quote
Andrew Pyper
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. View quote
Robert James Waller
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it. (Rose Tremain)
Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become. View quote
C.K. Prahalad
When you are into mathematics, you have been so high on the scale of complexity of reasoning that you are living in some kind of altered reality. You think everybody on the street is able to understand complicated reasoning [...]. And you get very frustrated, when you discover that's not the case. View quote
Cédric Villani
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds. View quote
Tadao Ando
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have. View quote
Tadao Ando