Famous Quotes & Sayings

George MacDonald

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

Emily Procter

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

Emily Ratajkowski

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

Emanuel Swedenborg

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

Elvis Presley

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

Elliott Abrams

It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.

Elizabeth George

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

Eknath Easwaran

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

John Conyers

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

John Crowe Ransom

Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France.

John Bunyan

Beware of resting in the word of the kingdom, without the spirit and power of the kingdom of that gospel, for the gospel coming in word only saves nobody, for the kingdom of God or the gospel, where it comes to salvation, is not in word but in power.

Joan Baez

When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

Joan Baez

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Louie Gohmert

Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

Lisa Kleypas

I never lie for the sake of kindness,” he murmured, smiling. “One of my many flaws.

Lionel Barrymore

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

Linda Howard

It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.

Lil Wayne

You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.

Lil Wayne

Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotion from a king.

Leo Tolstoy

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

Leo Tolstoy

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

Leo Tolstoy

The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness they can find in other people.

Leo Tolstoy

The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

Leo Tolstoy

Kings are the slaves of history.

Leo Tolstoy

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

Leo Tolstoy

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

Leo Rosten

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter..