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Kind Quotes by John Steinbeck
- They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of…
- In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there,…
- A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.…
- I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.
- A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
- It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and…
- I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood…
- A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when…
- I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
- I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the…
- A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In…
- A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.
- Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
- Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and…
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,…
- What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
- Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man…
- There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers...
- A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to.…
- Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an…
- There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature…
- Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.
- There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling…
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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… — Karen Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd