Best 6271 quotes in «kind quotes» category

Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Photography's relationship with pornography is as old as photography. That kind of unholy relationship is formed from the very beginning, and there's a reason why: it's thoroughly enjoyable to be that voyeuristic. Voyeurism is a very old modality, and most of the history of photography is in some way related voyeurism.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

Places you go in life - it opens your eyes up and you kind of understand who you are.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all. But it was a place where you could talk about other kinds of experience than the official version.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

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.

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

Pound for pound, your show is the best of its kind. I'm always learning from your great content!

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

P.P.S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word." JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY ANYWAY? MORON? Letter from Emily to Charles.

President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their smokestacks, were not only intrusive, they were also grossly inefficient.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find.

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

Producers might cast an actor because he is too tall next to the leading lady, who is too short, or they might not cast your guy because he's blond, and they wanted a brunette. There's all kinds of reasons why they want one person over another. I don't worry about it, but it can hurt sometimes if you really wanted something, if you really went after something.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.

Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.