Kind Quotes
18494 quotes by 9154 authors
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of…
— Paul Auster
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key,…
— Karen Armstrong
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons,…
— Karen Armstrong
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
— Isaac Asimov
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an…
— Mary Astell
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to…
— Chinua Achebe
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort…
— Rowan Atkinson
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
— David Attenborough
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When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
— Margaret Atwood
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of…
— John James Audubon
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
— Saint Augustine
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
— Dan Aykroyd
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I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a…
— Dan Aykroyd
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
— Dan Aykroyd
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are…
— Sai Baba
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I…
— Charles Babbage
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which…
— Charles Babbage
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need…
— Jensen Ackles
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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely…
— Lauren Bacall
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I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of…
— Sebastian Bach
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