Top 500 Kind Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.”

— Douglas Adams

452. “I’m back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.”

— John Steinbeck

453. “I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.”

— Morgan Freeman

454. “Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry.”

— Sigmund Freud

455. “A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.”

— Albert Camus

456. “What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?”

— James Joyce

457. “I’m kind of an idea guy.”

— Jeff Bridges

458. “I’m not the kind of guy who wakes up angry.”

— Roger Federer

459. “I love color – I’m not a beige kind of girl.”

— Christina Aguilera

460. “I don’t like the kind of writer who’s out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.”

— Ray Bradbury

461. “A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.”

— John Lubbock

462. “I laugh, that there’s a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don’t have to worry because whatever isn’t there right now, it’s coming back again.”

— Walter Mosley

463. “We seem to forget that innovation doesn’t just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.”

— John Maeda

464. “I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.”

— Billy Joel

465. “I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.”

— Drew Barrymore

466. “When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

467. “Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.”

— Yo-Yo Ma

468. “Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.”

— James Monroe

469. “There never is but one opportunity of a kind.”

— Henry David Thoreau

470. “I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.”

— Michael Jordan

471. “I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.”

— Atul Gawande

472. “Music has always been a big part of my life. It’s kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.”

— Kevin Durant

473. “No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.”

— Immanuel Kant

474. “Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.”

— Barack Obama

475. “What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?”

— Emil Cioran

476. “It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”

— Stephen Chbosky

477. “That’s such a relevant thing, as an actor – committing and not being distracted by any kind of technical awareness, or whatever. You do have to block things out sometimes, and sometimes it’s easier than others.”

— Dylan O'Brien

478. “I love fishing, any kind of fishing.”

— Brandi Carlile

479. “There’s truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That’s what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.”

— Tom Waits

480. “I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.”

— Joshua Bell

481. “A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

482. “I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.”

— Tim Burton

483. “Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind – a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind – of thought.”

— Albert Ellis

484. “I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.”

— George Lucas

485. “I feel like I’ve kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.”

— Shelby Lynne

486. “To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.”

— John Keats

487. “I love thee for a heart that’s kind – not for the knowledge in thy mind.”

— W. H. Davies

488. “The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured.”

— Thomas S. Monson

489. “Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?”

— Matt Groening

490. “Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.”

— Anatole France

491. “And I’m the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.”

— Veronica Roth

492. “You didn’t have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

493. “I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.”

— Courtney Love

494. “I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.”

— Ryan Gosling

495. “There’s a thing that if you – somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it’s a kind of paradox.”

— Anthony Hopkins

496. “I ain’t got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It’s kind of silly.”

— Charles Manson

497. “We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.”

— Edmund Husserl

498. “You just have to be the kind of guy to get people to do things.”

— Donald Trump

499. “The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.”

— Brennan Manning

500. “Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley