Kind Quotes - Page 134

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again--and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.

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.

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.

As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. I didn't make that money necessarily from the film business, but I eventually made a lot of money and that's what I do. Of course, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate, and I'm pretty content with my life.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

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

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

I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

You know, I don't know if you know this about me or not, but I'm kind of a big deal.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

All living things on earth are kindred.

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.