Certain Kind Quotes

165 quotes by 154 authors

The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance,… — Nicolas Berggruen
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a… — Leonard Cohen
As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C.S. Lewis
I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It… — Lisa Kudrow
In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there… — Caroline Paul
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who… — Daniel H. Pink
Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are… — Mickey Rourke
By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him. — Rajneesh
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the… — Ray Kroc
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… — James A. Baldwin
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names… — Robbie Robertson
But I really resist categories â€“ that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art â€“ those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind… — Barbara Kruger
Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work. — William Holden
Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe. — Grace Kelly
I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a… — Rachael Taylor
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye,… — Alastair Reynolds
Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of… — Albert Ellis
There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets… — Van Morrison
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering. — D. A. Carson

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