Kind Quotes - Page 68

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

What kind of believer are you? Do you believe IN God?. Or do you believe God? There is a major distinction. People who believe in God, simply acknowledge the existence of a Higher Power. People who believe God believe Him enough to do what He says.

Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can occur but once in their detailed glory. And for those kinds of sciences, be it cosmology, or evolutionary biology, or geology, or palaeontology, the experimental methods, simplification, quantification, prediction and repetition of the experimental sciences don't always work. You have to go with the narrative, the descriptive methods of what? Of historians.

Being sexy is kind of funny to me.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points.

I think mystery is kind of great. I don't know anything about Bette Davis or Katharine Hepburn or Ava Gardner - not really - and I like that. I love watching their movies because they're my personal movie stars. I don't know what they eat and who their trainer is.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.

How wise must one be to be always kind.