Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cory Booker

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

Clive Barker

You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

E. B. White

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

Duncan Sheik

I make the kind of music I like

Douglas Hofstadter

No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.

Andre Gide

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Ann Patchett

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

Analeigh Tipton

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.

Anatoly Chubais

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

Anatole France

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

Anne Hathaway

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

Anne Frank

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Anne Frank

And you can always, always, give kindness

Anne Frank

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Anne Frank

You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!

Anjelica Huston

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

Anchee Min

I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.

Chuck Palahniuk

We kind of deny the stages of life.

Chuck D.

Music should be some kind of nourishment.

Christopher Morley

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Anne Bronte

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

Andrew Bird

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Amy Bloom

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

Amy Carmichael

If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Anne Rice

The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.

Andrew Solomon

We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

Andrew Solomon

I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Ambrose Bierce

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Ambrose Bierce

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Ambrose Bierce

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

Ambrose Bierce

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.