Kind Quotes - page 7

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. (Philo)
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. View quote
Martin Feldstein
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer. View quote
Joseph Addison
...they want the federal government controlling Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program. View quote
George W. Bush
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? View quote
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then? View quote
Neil Gaiman
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. View quote
John Millington Synge
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar. View quote
John Mayer
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself. (Judith Butler)
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves. View quote
P. T. Barnum
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. View quote
Coretta Scott King
Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them. View quote
Ricky Gervais
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking. View quote
Ken Kesey
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. View quote
Donald Judd
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. (Edith Sitwell)
The truth is that Masonry is undoubtedly a religious institution, its religion being of that universal kind in which all men agree. View quote
Albert Mackey
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. View quote
Mary McCarthy
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. View quote
Mary McCarthy
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk