Kind Quotes - Page 175

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

I've learned to take the positive and negative, but that still kind of shook me. I'm human. I have moments when I sit back and wonder how doing something that makes me happy can possibly offend other people. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I don't have time for that.

What interests you most is our present condition: it is what we would have desired, thorny and difficult, but it is made easier by the unction of grace and alleviated by an all-kind Providence whose help is never withdrawn and whose protection is felt at every moment.

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

I believe, AGW is simply a kind of collective hysteria with no basis in science.

Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things the job, the house, the this, the that do not really fill the place inside.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things.

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do the most acts of random kindness.

But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.

Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot for the ecology movement, a symbol of prehistory - we can't see the Indian among us.

Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.

If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he would not be worth our notice. But because he's now been based to this huge stage, then his dimensions become immense. He's not a tragic figure because he doesn't have the capacity to be tragic. But the consequences of his life and his self now are immense; they're threatening to the world and to the sanctity of human life.

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.

Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.