Famous Quotes & Sayings

Satish Kumar

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

Sarah Monette

The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasn’t a citizen of it.

Sarah MacLean

Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary

Sara Paretsky

This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.

Sara Paretsky

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

Sara Shepard

There's really kind of nobody we can trust.

Sara Teasdale

Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

Sanford I. Weill

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

Sandy Duncan

Right now were in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

Samuel Rutherford

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

Samuel Rutherford

It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

Samuel Johnson

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

Samuel Johnson

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

Samuel Johnson

We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.

Samuel Johnson

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

Samuel Johnson

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

Samuel Johnson

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

Wallace Stevens

Money is a kind of poetry.

Vittorio Alfieri

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

Vittorio Alfieri

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

Vittorio Alfieri

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

Virgil

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

Virgil

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Will Wright

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

Willa Cather

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Washington Irving

By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

Walter Lang

Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.

Walter Lippmann

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Voltaire

Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

Voltaire

Friends should be preferred to kings.

Voltaire

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.