#kind

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards! ↗

— Ernest Poole

#crops #drunkards #dukes #grand #kind

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#feeling #gets #gift #give #good

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#divisions #end #few #find #gain

The proper study of Mankind is Man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#mankind #proper #proper study #study

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#always #does #find #kind #kindness

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#child #kindly #law #nature #pleased

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#know #man #mankind #presume #proper

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. ↗

— Karl Popper

#elevated #histories #history #human #human life

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#artist #chaos #confusion #disparate #frame

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#doing #ended #grown #i #just