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Quotes About Kind

Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.
~ Peter Singer
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.
~ Philip Pullman
And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.
~ Philip Roth
Nechtr looks at him, but that's almost even creepier: this Mark guy looks at you with the kind of distanced concentration you use to look at something you're eating.
~ David Foster Wallace
Thus the approach of death can sometimes lead to a kind of liberation. In its shadow, life suddenly takes on an intensity, resonance, and savor we may never have known before.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.
~ David Milch
I'm an affectionate person.
~ Zara Phillips
No one stays young forever. And me? I lost my youth in the battlefield. If I have my way, I'll never leave this country again. Hell, I'll never leave the county. And if you think I'm the kind of man who'd leave Amelia, you never knew me at all.
~ Hope Larson
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.
~ Hugh Blair
Sufi service has to be the right kind of service; neither servitude nor hypocrisy.
~ Idries Shah
I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.
~ Brenda Lee
I am virtuous. Kind. In control. That I am attractive enough to my husband so he won't stray. That I am good in bed—a whore behind closed doors. That I eat right and have my weight and carbs under control. That I am an accomplished businesswoman and also bake nice cookies and volunteer at my kids' school and take my kids to swimming lessons and make sure they understand their faith.
~ Unknown
it was hard to hide one's emotion from one's own kind.
~ Loretta Chase
In the ruins of my office stood a woman with the kind of beauty that makes men murder friends and start wars.
~ Jim Butcher
They're a bunch of assholes." "And you aren't?" "I'm a different kind of asshole.
~ Jim Butcher
A person who has a billion times the wealth of another still operates within human limitations and the monetary system, but one who has infinite resources operates on an altogether different level. A person who lives a thousand times longer than another person is still mortal, but one who is immortal is not greater only in degree, but also in kind.
~ Unknown
Stop thinking that nuns are sweet and kind like Maria in The Sound of Music. That's just a movie. Think of the evil old bruja in 'Hansel and Gretal.
~ Unknown
Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.
~ Susan Piver
Women are complicated and messy and we are certainly not perfect, but we are funny and challenging and kind, and I wouldn't change a thing
~ Melissa McCarthy
Justice has a good and righteous and rational kind of power. The power of grace is different: unworldly, transforming, supernatural.
~ Philip Yancey
attention to trifles is inconsistent with great genius of every kind
~ Plotinus
I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein.
~ Rachel Caine
We're clear, she said. You're kind of a psycho. I get that
~ Rachel Caine
Clarity confused me. I was far less forgiving and kind than the general state of disconnection in which I liked to live.
~ Rachel Caine