Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace?

Jodi Picoult

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

Jodi Picoult

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Jodi Picoult

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Jodi Picoult

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

John Greenleaf Whittier

What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

Kris Allen

I love any kind of candy.

Oprah Winfrey

I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

Margaret Atwood

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Kindness is produced by kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

Katie Holmes

I'm not the easiest person to live with. I'm kind of a slob. So for me to consider a roommate, it would have to be one of my sisters or something.

Katie Holmes

I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.

Margaret Cho

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Larry Page

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

Lake Bell

I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.

Lafcadio Hearn

Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

Lillian Smith

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

Paul Morley

It's kind of great being a group without a lead singer, because the possibilities are sky high. Odd things become the lead singer, noises become the lead singer. It actually makes the thing much more flexible.

Patsy Kensit

Kindness Day should be everyday of your life.

Oscar Wilde

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Maeve Binchy

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

Lykke Li

I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

Lucy Fisher

I like all kinds of movies. I really do.

Liv Tyler

I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really floored me in a way that I hadn't ever felt toward a public figure before. To see her kindness was inspiring and spoke to me as a person. She was so real and so elegant..I am also inspired by what Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like Cambodia to help children by actually being there and being more involved.

Liz Callaway

There's just something that is kind of magical that happens when we sing live.

Liza Minnelli

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

Liz Phair

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.