Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

Agnes Repplier

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

Agnes Repplier

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

Aaron Sorkin

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.

Charlotte Bronte

as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

Charlotte Bronte

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

Charlotte Bronte

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

Charlie Chaplin

More than machinery, we need humanity.

Charlie Chaplin

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Jane Smiley

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

Calvin Trillin

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fortune favors the audacious.

Anonymous Toast

May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed

Edward Kennedy

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Baltasar Gracian

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Carol Moseley Braun

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Alan Keyes

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

Charles Caleb Colton

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Gary Loveman

Ultimately, we're just here to get our money back. We don't wish Mr Stewart any ill will. He was paid a lot of money to do something he did not do. It's merely a contractual matter.

Jason Chaffetz

Straw purchasing is illegal.

Alan Watts

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

William Congreve

Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fitThat impudence and malice pass for wit.

Elie Wiesel

No human being is illegal.

Elie Wiesel

How can a human being be illegal?