Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbra Streisand

I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.

Arthur Golden

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

Arthur Conan Doyle

He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.

Arthur Bryant

When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

Arthur Balfour

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.

Bellamy Young

From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

bell hooks

I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase, but what he meant was that as Black Americans we need to let our anger go, because holding on to it we hold ourselves down. We oppress ourselves by holding on to anger.

bell hooks

Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.

bell hooks

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Kindness can change the lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Arundhati Roy

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Azealia Banks

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

Diana Wynne Jones

Howl has been very kind to me.” And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all Sophie did to annoy him, he had been very good to her indeed. “Do listen. He’s not wicked at all!” There was a bit of a fizz from the grate at this, where Calcifer was watching with some interest. “ He isn’t!” Sophie said, to Calcifer as much as to Fanny..

Diana Wynne Jones

Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

Desiderius Erasmus

For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

We're just not playing as well as we could right now. We're just kind of laying back and letting them take it to us.

William Shakespeare

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

William Shakespeare

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

William Shakespeare

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

William Shakespeare

Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him misinterpret me-- Have stooped my neck under your injuries And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment, Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat, Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman.

Katori Hall

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

With these kinds of horses, you just dont know, ... Shes just one we really, really wanted.

William Moore

When I was a redshirt, I used to go to meetings and just kind of look at stuff because what they were teaching wasn't really important to me,

Dominique Wilkins

Bernard King is the only guy that ever scared the hell out of me.

Dick Armey

George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently free. It is an idea too many in government today forget.

Diane Setterfield

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

Dianna Agron

Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.

Diane von Furstenberg

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.