Kind Quotes

18494 Kind quotes by 8767 unique authors

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace… — George Orwell
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking… — George Orwell
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter… — Poul Anderson
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to… — Maya Angelou
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship.… — Jorge Luis Borges
Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind. — Charles Capps
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. — Clifton Fadiman
The only time to believe any kind of rating is when it shows you at the top. — Bob Hope
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another. — Sean O'Casey
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think… — Ayn Rand
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can… — Dorothy L. Sayers
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… — John Steinbeck
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is… — William Zinsser
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the… — William Zinsser
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. — Henry Ward Beecher
Not to have an audience is a kind of death. — Tillie Olsen
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse… — Alan Cohen
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing… — Sherry Turkle
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields… — Albert Einstein
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. — Benjamin Franklin
As a young girl, I never felt attractive. I was fat and unhappy at times, and that kind of thinking stays with you your entire… — Kate Winslet
I don't really care what I look like that much, and I think women out there should just be happy with the way they look.… — Rebel Wilson
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it,… — Benjamin Franklin
Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind? — Wayne Dyer

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