Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

George Blagden

Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

George Bernard Shaw

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

Gary Lineker

Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

Frederick William Faber

Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.

Frederick William Faber

Kind words are the music of the world.

Frederick William Faber

Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying and yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.

Frederick William Robertson

There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.

Fred Armisen

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

Chris Hardwick

It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on the past or your perceived flaws will do nothing but keep you under emotional house arrest and hamper your progress. Commit yourself to growth and reward yourself with kindness for choosing to do so!

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

Chrissy Teigen

I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.

Chris O'Dowd

I definitely enjoy an audience, when I'm performing. As I get older I'm kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as a raconteur, but that never really worked out.

Chris LeDoux

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.

Chris Hayes

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

George Soros

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

George R. R. Martin

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

George R. R. Martin

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

George R. R. Martin

He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers.” He took a draught of wine. “I am generous. Loyal to those who are loyal to me. I’ve proven I’m no craven. And I am cleverer than most, surely wits count for something. I can even be kind. Kindness is not a habit with us Lannisters, I fear, but I know I have some somewhere. I could be… I could be good to you.

Garry Winogrand

I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.

Frank Warren

The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic...

Frank Gehry

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

George Dzundza

I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.

Faye Dunaway

I'm kind of a recluse.

Ezra Taft Benson

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others? weaknesses and fault. Kindness is extended to all--to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of stations as well as the high.

Eve Ensler

I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.

Eugene McCarthy

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

Francis Fukuyama

As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.

Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Sometimes you just match up well with a team. Look at Utah. They've kind of got our number.

I've got all kinds of trinkets around here from her.

I've got all kinds of stuff, but I don't use them, ... They just get in the way.