Kind Quotes - Page 206

For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

Every time you play one old-time picture along with today's kind of work, and they throw in the computers and the guns and the this and the that and the God-almighty, it gets to be a hassle and you wonder who the hell's doing what!

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable.

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

I'm kind of a weirdo about Krazy Glue. I don't know why, but I always have it in my purse.

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.

The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.

Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled to a nice day in my life but beauty creeps close to narcissism, which I really dislike, particularly in human beings who were born with good looks, who cash in on it. It's a bit of a dodgy word for me. I look at it with caution. It can be a bit like walking into quicksand; it can get you in to all kinds of trouble.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

I'm kind of naturally thin, so if I were to completely crash diet, I'd almost be too skinny.