Kind Quotes - Page 18

• I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

  John Updike

  Basketball, Matter, Firsts

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 02, 2016

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• I’m not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn’t this the kind of thing you talk about in somber tones, in the afternoon, with some degree of hope and maybe even a handful of strategies?

  Richard Siken

  Degrees, Afternoon, World

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• A patient, methodical sort of madman. The worst kind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Patient, Worst, Madmen

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.677, Simon and Schuster

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• Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?' Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cities, Doubt, Luck

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• My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.

  Stephen Fry

  Firsts, Facts, Favourite

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.35, Soho Press

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• We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

  Carol Shields

  Hands, Knowing, Want

  Carol Shields (2001). “Dressing Up for the Carnival”, p.22, Penguin

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• Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

  John Dryden

  Life, Kindness, Keys

  'All for Love' (1678) act 5, sc. 1 (of Love)

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• And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

  Georgette Heyer

  Wish, Persons, Obliged

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• hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

  David Levithan

  Hubris, Feels, Mines

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.107, Macmillan

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• What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

  Nora Roberts

  Plates, Thousand, Needed

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.1209, Penguin

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• All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Different, Three

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• And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Government, People

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

  Mickey Spillane

  Dirty, People, Together

  Mickey Spillane (1968). “The Big Kill”, p.7, Penguin

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• ...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.

  Libba Bray

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.

  John Green

  Taken, Air, Places You Go

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.139, A&C Black

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• Since this was a formal undead gathering, there would be food—all kinds—drinks, dancing, and festivities, while those in power pondered whether or not to slaughter half the people around them. In other words, like a high-school prom.

  Jeaniene Frost

  School, People, Dancing

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• Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could just get to that point where you could see it, and live it, and feel it. I think it is a long, long, way off. In the meantime there’s suffering and darkness and confusion and absurdities, and it’s people kind of going in circles. It’s fantastic. It’s like a strange carnival: it’s a lot of fun, but it’s a lot of pain.

  David Lynch

  Fun, Pain, Creativity

  "Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film". Book by Joseph Maddrey, p. 160, 2004.

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• Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I kind of like what I see. Someone who actually fails. Someone who has absolutely no self-control. Someone who says real dickhead things like 'this is complicated.' I like that part of me, you know. I like the fact that I know I can't control you or how I feel about you and that doesn't freak me out.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Self, Control Someone

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.192, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Running, Real, Men

  Johanna Lindsey (2004). “A Man to Call My Own: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?

  Joss Whedon

  Fun, Writing, Men

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• ...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.

  Brad Thor

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.

  Nikolas Schreck

  Hands, Left Hand, Path

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• We’re days away from going full scale against Malone, and in the meantime, we’re under fire from above. And I’m about as useful as a three-legged dog.” “You’re much more useful than any kind of dog, mi vida.” Marc purred and pressed me into the counter, his hands on my hips. I couldn’t resist a smile. I was a real sucker for Spanish.

  Rachel Vincent

  Dog, Real, Fire

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• Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

  Joss Whedon

  Logic, Misogyny, Behinds

  "Joss Whedon Performs at Women's Rights Event, Decries Sexism, Praises 'Hunger Games'" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 20, 2012.

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• The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Shy, Want, Be Kind

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