Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

They're true," I replied defiantly. "I came here to kill you. And if I can't do that, then I'd rather die." "You failed, you know. On the street." "Yeah. I kind of figured that out when I woke up here.

Russell Banks

Driving home, it's all I can do to keep from crying. Time's come, time's gone, time's never returning, I say to myself. What's here in front of me is all I've got, I decide, and as I drive my car through the blowing snow it doesn't seem like much, except for the kindness that I've just exchanged with an old lady, so I concentrate on that.

Russell Crowe

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

Ruben Studdard

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Umberto Eco

Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.

Tyler Blackburn

Vulnerability is kind of one of those things of, how do I really feel in this moment?

Triple H

What the hell kind of family did I marry into?

Richard Davidson

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

Rebecca Solnit

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

Rhonda Byrne

Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

To love those that love you is easy. To love those that love you not is not so simple. If you want to change anyone, set a better example. Show more kindness, more understanding, more love. That has a sure effect. To those who are not kind, show kindness. To those who are mean, show bigness of heart.

Owen Hart

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

Ovid

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

Ovid

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.

P. C. Cast

when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.

Patty Duke

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

Mary Oliver

Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.

Mary Oliver

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

Mary Oliver

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

Mary Doria Russell

When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.

Pope John Paul II

Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.

Pope John Paul II

Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God.

Pietro Metastasio

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

Pierre Corneille

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

Pierre Corneille

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

Pope Francis

I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.

Peter McWilliams

Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.

Peter Stone

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

Peter Green

The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.

Plutarch

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

Plutarch

The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

Pico Iyer

You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.