Kind Quotes - Page 195

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.

Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient in the main. Yet one, a man apart, who found me fair and gave his heart. Now Lord, that I have grown more sage . . . into middle age. I only ask, as face grows lines of countenance, it be described as kind; that wrinkles by my eyes will show a little humor as I go; that I may view my humble scene with glance of one content, serene, through grateful, shining eyes that see the blessings you have given me.

I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives.

I found incredible kindness, dignity and hospitality in both Iraq and Afghanistan - am only alive because of it - the most worthwhile lesson of a twenty month walk to these countries was a deepening appreciation of the kindness of strangers.

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.

I'm not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all. But it was a place where you could talk about other kinds of experience than the official version.

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the old horror movies.

Be the kind of friend who makes it easier for others to obey the commandments when they are with you.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.