Kind Quotes - Page 186

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the millennium and today, investigating where we put our faith and why. The greatest of Roe's achievements in this captivating debut is a memorable feat of intense empathy. Roe inhabits characters who are desperate to believe and reveals to us their needs and wounds and hopes, and he does so with kindness, generosity, and wisdom. This is a novel about what it means to be human, to seek connection and hope and maybe even transcendence in the world around us.

the more thoughtful you are of others, the more thoughtful they will be of you. The more you respect them, the more you will win their respect.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

If everybody did just one thing. Just one thing. Not even a great thing. Not a world-changing thing, just one blessing, just one act of living kindness. The effect of each caring action, no matter how seemingly small, brings blessings into the lives of others. There may be no greater or more important thing that we can do at this instant.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.

Howl has been very kind to me." And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all Sophie did to annoy him, he had been very good to her indeed. "Do listen. He's not wicked at all!" There was a bit of a fizz from the grate at this, where Calcifer was watching with some interest. " He isn't!" Sophie said, to Calcifer as much as to Fanny.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

Courage and clemency are equal virtues.

I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.

I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creat­ing life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

I'm very confident in what I do, but I'd like to think I don't ever show any kind of cockiness or overconfidence.