Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Charles Bukowski

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

Charles Bukowski

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

Charles Bukowski

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

Brian Blessed

Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

Brad Goreski

Never say never. I myself say no to things, and then I wear them. So, I'm now kind of sticking to the rule that there are no rules. Everything eventually comes back.

Boz Scaggs

I love all kinds of music.

Jane Goodall

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.

Jane Goodall

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

Jamie Bell

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

Juvenal

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

Juvenal

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

Antonio Porchia

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

Keri Hilson

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.

Lee Kuan Yew

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

Derek Bailey

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

Deb Caletti

I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

Dierks Bentley

I'm always looking for things that make me kind of uncomfortable.

Dennis Nilsen

I have started down the avenue of death and depression of a new kind of flatmate.

Dennis Muren

It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.

Deepak Chopra

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

Eden Sher

I'm kind of a weirdo about Krazy Glue. I don't know why, but I always have it in my purse.

Edgar Cayce

Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.

Edgar Cayce

Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

Ed Helms

I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

William Shakespeare

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

Agnes Repplier

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

Aasif Mandvi

Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

Aaron Sorkin

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.

Charlotte Bronte

as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

Charlotte Bronte

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

Charlotte Bronte

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.