Kindsight Quotes & Sayings

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle,
When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm. — Richard Wilbur

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech ... For true poetry is never speech but always a song. — Herbert Read

View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, "What was I thinking," breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, "What was I learning? — Karen Salmansohn

I am the master of my own fate:
I am the captain of my soul. — William Ernest Henley

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I learned an important lesson: Never take the obvious for granted. Once upon a time, it was so obvious that a four-pound rock would plummet earthward twice as fast as a two-pound rock that no one ever bothered to test it. That is, until Galileo Galilei came along and took ten minutes to perform an elegantly simple experiment that yielded a counterintuitive result and changed the course of history. — V.S. Ramachandran

I wonder why the Ramsay estate is so unproductive?" Amelia mused as the carriage traveled alongside lush pastures. "The land in Hampshire is so fertile, one almost has to try not to grow something here."
"But our land is cursed, isn't it?" Poppy asked with mild concern.
"No," Amelia replied, "not the estate itself. Just the titleholder. Which would be Leo."
"Oh." Poppy relaxed. "That's fine, then. — Lisa Kleypas

How bad could things be if my hair was neat? — Jeff Lindsay

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this. — David Axelrod

If we're going to win this battle over fiscal responsibility, we need more of the people who vote right and fewer of those whose seniority is their only selling point. — Jason Chaffetz

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first. — Meyer Lansky

The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character. — Helen Keller

Would it surprise you to know that a presence was on your back a few seconds ago? — Teresa Flavin

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster