She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
I’ve learned that sometimes, when you’re afraid but you keep on moving forward, that’s the biggest kind of courage there is.
If beauty on Earth is the same as elsewhere: ideal in that it is tantalizing and unsolvable, creating a delicious kind of confusion.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn't have had any friends in any environment other than performing.
I need to think about 'Make sure you drink your water.' That's the kind of person I am.
I guess because I was on the 'Early Show' for so many years, any little victory here is something kind of new for me.
I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.
Oh, I wish I could tell you I was a Mr. Fix-It, but I am not that kind of guy. I get frustrated so easily.
Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.
I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
Abuse changes who we are, it changes who we become, It changes how we move in the world – And so does kindness
Keep your mindset strong, your heart pure, your intentions kind and your dreams big.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend.
