Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

William Doyle

Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.

Walter Payton

Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a young age you can really change a life. There are a lot of studies that show that one act of kindness to these children has a 40% chance of making that child have a completely different outcome in their life. What you hope is that you can get a kid to believe in something and to believe in themselves.

Walter Rauschenbusch

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

Walter Raleigh

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

W. Somerset Maugham

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

W. Somerset Maugham

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

Vladimir Nabokov

IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.

Wynton Marsalis

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Wynton Marsalis

This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.

William P. Young

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

William Penn

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

William Penn

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

William Makepeace Thackeray

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

William Makepeace Thackeray

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Yehuda Amichai

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

Yelawolf

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

Zig Ziglar

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.