Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madame de Stael

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Haruki Murakami

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

Haruki Murakami

At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo forever --- his strength, his intelligence, his kindness. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

Haruki Murakami

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

Haruki Murakami

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

Haruki Murakami

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Haruki Murakami

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Haruki Murakami

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

Han Suyin

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

Gustavo Santaolalla

I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music.

Grantland Rice

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Gordon Smith

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

John Dryden

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

John Dryden

War is a trade of kings.

John Dryden

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

John Dryden

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

John Dryden

War is the trade of kings.

John Dryden

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

John Dryden

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

John Dryden

The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust, Which when resum'd, can be no longer just. Successionm for the general good design'd, In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

John Dryden

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

Jim Wallis

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

Jim Wallis

Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.

Jim Wallis

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

John Cheever

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.

John Cheever

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

John Cena

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