Quotes on Kind

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to recognize their struggle.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.

He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.