Kind Quotes - Page 16

• Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Mind, Nervous, Obedient

  Diana Wynne Jones (2013). “The Chrestomanci Series: Entire Collection”, p.92, HarperCollins UK

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• Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep?

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Sleep, Enough

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• What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Compassion, Imagination, Three

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• I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

  Roald Dahl

  Kindness, Simple, Thinking

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• You will tell me what you know now," he said. "Or?" He said nothing, so I elaborated. "See, this kind of threat usually has an 'or' attached to it. Or an 'and'. 'Tell me and I'll allow you to live' or something like that.

  Ilona Andrews

  Said, Threat, Knows

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other. As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Cute, Girl, Teenage

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• Last night we told you that none of the angels remember where we landed when we fell," Daniel said. "Yeah, about that... How's it possible?" Shelby said. "You'd think that kind of thing would leave an impression on the old memorizer." Cam's face reddened. "You try falling for nine days through multiple dimensions and trillions of miles, landing on your face, breaking your wings, rolling around concussed for who knows how long, wandering the desert for decades looking for any clue as to who or what or where you are - then talk to me about the old memorizer.

  Lauren Kate

  Fall, Angel, Night

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• Actually, I am kind of busy right now,” I drawled as I settled back into the chair and closed my eyes. “You have to make melanin while the sun shines.

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Shining, Melanin

  Kim Harrison (2011). “Pale Demon”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Boys, Thinking, Want

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.

  David Levithan

  Hurt, People, Break

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.43, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely over there. At least to me. But whenever I would tell you that, you'd say "I'm fine. I just slip out of it, you know?" And I'd say "I'll catch you," and you would say, "It's not the kind of slipping you can catch.

  David Levithan

  Lonely, Talking, Would Be

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• You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.

  Sarah Dessen

  Persons, Keeping The Moon

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.189, Penguin

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• There were only two kinds of people in our town. ―The stupid and the stuck- ―The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go. Everyone else finds a way out.

  Kami Garcia

  Stupid, Two, People

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• 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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• Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!

  William Blake

  Mother, Children, Father

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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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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• Wasn’t that kind of the basis of passion? I didn’t know that either. The only thing I knew for sure was that this kiss had been a lot like the last one. Nice, but it didn’t blow me away. My heart sank. There was something wrong with me. Everyone was always going on about how socially inept I was. Did it extend to romance as well? Was I so cold that I’d spend my life never feeling anything?

  Richelle Mead

  Nice, Passion, Heart

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• Oh my God. You're a witch-hunter. I'm a witch. Hate to break it to you Daniel, but if you're a witch-hunter? You're doing it wrong." He gave me a sidelong smile. "Maybe it's not that kind of hunting." "Then you're definitely doing it wrong.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Hate, Hunting, Hunters

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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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• Writer's block — so what? Write something bad. Just throw it in the trash can when you're done, you're always improving. That kind of writing is like doing a bunch of push-ups. Every individual push-up is not the important thing. On Tuesday you're going to think, "Is it really important that I do it today?" No, but the collective impact is. If you write every day, you will improve.

  N.D. Wilson

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dark, Men, Racism

  "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". www.africa.upenn.edu. April 16, 1963.

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