Kind Quotations

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

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.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

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

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

God as "he," as a patriarchal thing, is offensive to me. It's standard fare for America - "he, he, he." Every time I hear that, it's like another blow against females. It's very radical talk at this point for females to say this kind of stuff, but nationwide, I still hear females referring to God as "he."

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the truest looks at human nature - you can find them in another countrys movies.

If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

If I'm doing something its coming from a kind heart.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

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

I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.