Be Kind Quotes

Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

Seeing my face on a poster is surreal. You look at it and it's not quite like you, if you know what I mean... it's almost a third person kind of thing. I still find it strange.

I was raised by a single dad, so I've always just kind of liked "guys" stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.

I'm walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.

There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.