Be Kind Quotes

I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me, really.

I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

I don't really know anything about fashion, I just kind of wing it and do what I want at the time.

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the occasions you are extremely kind of getting a single with nature.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.

I always try to read at night, because it gets me kind of tired.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

I kind of like to look like a hobo.

We try to write the best songs ever, and they come out kind of funny.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that.

I love having a full schedule everyday and always being a little bit sleep deprived and just kind of love that lifestyle.

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.

It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

It was kind of fun being the headliners.

No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.

I'm working on my house and playing with my fire pit and kind of just hanging around and making my home feel homey.

When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

When you add just a little bit [of Tabasco] at the end, what you taste is the spectrum between the cooked chile flavor and the kind of nearly raw, just kind of fermented chile flavor at the end.

It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.

Im truly the best singer in the country. My kind of pop music is the best in Spain.

I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.