Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

Charles Sturt

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Charles Spurgeon

A good character is the best tombstone.

Charles Spurgeon

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Charles Spurgeon

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Charles Spurgeon

For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Alan Bennett

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

Chloe Sevigny

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

Kym Bernache

I went hysterical because I had to verify Zeb was my son.

Sean Rushton

The left is doing its predictable show of hysterical scare-mongering.

Jerry Lewis

And he's right on the money every time. And I'm hysterical laughing at this kid!

Jeaniene Frost

A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before?

Larry DiRita

This is the most hysterical piece of journalist malpractice I have ever observed.

Judd Apatow

You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.

Sean Rushton

The more shrill and hysterical they get, the more they isolate themselves.

Benjamin Haydon

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Alan Lowenthal

Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

Bobby Flay

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

David Whitehouse

We are reaching the point where the temperature standstill is becoming the major feature of the recent global warm period that began in 1980. In brief, the global temperature has remained constant for longer than it has increased."

Jamie Farr

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

Janet Jackson

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never lose your temper, except intentionally.

Anthony Horowitz

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

William Shakespeare

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment?No man.