Unkind Quotes - Page 8

• The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

  S. J. Perelman

  New York, Hollywood, Pariahs

  "Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47, 1992.

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• So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Jealous, Long, Unions

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons”, p.216

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• I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

  Julian Fellowes

  Book, Thinking, Reader

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• A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

  Huey Lewis

  Greatness, Thinking, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals (especially in the name of profit) the cruelty is condoned and will be defended by otherwise intelligent people.

  Ruth Harrison

  Animal, Intelligent, Names

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• There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Silly, Gossip, Wickedness

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

  Lou Reed

  Night, Thinking, Hands

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.12, Da Capo Press

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• Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you're at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, ... there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Fashion, Feet, Clothes

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• My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Kindness, Compassion, Justice

  Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

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• The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.

  William Wordsworth

  Running, Gratitude, Heart

  William Wordsworth, “Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman”

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• People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

  John Hawkes

  Moving, People, Kind

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• Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Moments

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• I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

  David Lynch

  Philadelphia, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.

  Caitlin Moran

  Hands, Car, Feminist

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• I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

  Charles de Lint

  Darkness, Stranger, Innocent

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• ...a choice had to be made when your husband said something unkind. Specifically: be cruel, be strong, or sulk. 'Be cruel' by saying an unkind thing back. 'Be strong' by choosing not to mind. But to do this, you have to use up a piece of your love. You have to shave off enough of the love to forgive. After a while, the piece might grow back, but sometimes not. And if you shave off all the soft curves, you'll be left with a sharp-edged love. 'Sulk' by sulking. Sulking is simply delaying the choice to be cruel or strong.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Strong, Husband, Love You

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• Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Hurt, Children, Divorce

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• Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, People, Laughing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

  Sue Miller

  Thinking, Empathy, Kind

  Sue Miller (2014). “While I Was Gone: rejacketed”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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