Top 500 Kind Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed.”

— Oprah Winfrey

252. “People are just obsessed with other people’s lives. I don’t know whether it’s kind of a way to escape their own, or something to follow I really couldn’t tell you.”

— Lauren Conrad

253. “Habit has a kind of poetry.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

254. “The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.”

— John C. Maxwell

255. “Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.”

— Robert Fulghum

256. “We must build a kind of United States of Europe.”

— Winston Churchill

257. “We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”

— C. S. Lewis

258. “What I do shows people what kind of person I am.”

— César Chávez

259. “How wise must one be to be always kind.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

260. “We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.”

— Derrick Jensen

261. “You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

262. “The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.”

— Homer

263. “I did one sci-fi movie. I did ‘Gattaca.’ I liked ‘Gattaca’ because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.”

— Ethan Hawke

264. “Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.”

— Coretta Scott King

265. “General, you don’t have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!”

— Robert McNamara

266. “I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.”

— Elvis Presley

267. “There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can’t take it any more.”

— Terry Pratchett

268. “There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”

— Thomas Mann

269. “What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”

— Emily Brontë

270. “Every woman is just a different kind of problem.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

271. “I don’t follow any kind of ‘isms.’ If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.”

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

272. “There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.”

— Shakira

273. “I’m not even kind of a lesbian.”

— Oprah Winfrey

274. “In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.”

— Steven Wright

275. “Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.”

— Haile Gebrselassie

276. “Of course, everybody says they’re for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace?”

— Noam Chomsky

277. “I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.”

— David Levithan

278. “The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?”

— Seneca the Younger

279. “Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor.”

— John Steinbeck

280. “To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.”

— Waylon Jennings

281. “When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It’s kind of a Warhol thing.”

— Damien Hirst

282. “Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.”

— Christopher Hitchens

283. “In the ’80’s my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I’d like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.”

— Richard Branson

284. “I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity.”

— David Foster Wallace

285. “Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.”

— Angela Y. Davis

286. “The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?”

— Jim Gaffigan

287. “The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

288. “Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!”

— Edgar Allan Poe

289. “The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.”

— Brian May

290. “Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.”

— Antisthenes

291. “Ringo is Ringo, that’s all there is to it. And he’s every bloody bit as warm, unassuming, funny and kind as he seems. He was quite simply the heart of the Beatles.”

— John Lennon

292. “We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

293. “My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.”

— Alicia Keys

294. “Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

295. “Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.”

— John Dryden

296. “Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don’t have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you’ve got all kinds of choices.”

— Michael J. Fox

297. “Making money isn’t something to be ashamed of. There’s a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.”

— Terry Pratchett

298. “I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.”

— Harper Lee

299. “Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.”

— Tom Waits

300. “I don’t mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.”

— Simon Cowell