Kind Quotes - Page 180

She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that’s the best you can do with people. I’d tried kindness. I’d tried friendship. I’d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he pursues (which reflect his social-science background).

Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.

Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Saying youre from Texas makes you kind of proud.

I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.

When you tell women that they are, and you train them to actually believe that their value is involved with, the commodification of their sexuality, then you open the floodgates to this kind of absurd sort of reductive view of a human.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of organizing your thoughts. We use problem-solving; what we call "what-if-ing." What if this happened? What would we do? We go over plan B, C, D, E, F, and whatever else, depending on the criticality of what we're doing. This kind of thing can be applied almost everywhere, even at home.