Kind Quotes - Page 176

So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

I use all kinds of resources for researching my novels. I'm not shy about calling up experts and asking questions, or emailing, or buying textbooks and references. The Internet is always a brilliant way to find instant facts, but it's not a great way to really understand your subjects in depth without a lot of work.

I'm certainly not a trained singer. I'm just kind of following a feeling.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

A PILGRIM IS A WANDERER WITH A PURPOSE. A pilgrimage can be to a place - that's the best known kind - but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am a Peace Pilgrim.

There are certain scripts that are just written in a way where, for whatever reason, I read it, and instantly that inspiration hit me and it was just kind of electric, and I didn't have to think about it. It just kind of went from there.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.

The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual qualities — wisdom, kindness, power, grace, patience, loyalty — but for what they are altogether. For their entire elephantness.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

I think you should have a mindset of getting to the playoffs, because once you get in the playoffs, it is kind of a crapshoot.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.