Famous Quotes & Sayings

Satish Kumar

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

Sara Paretsky

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

Sara Shepard

There's really kind of nobody we can trust.

Sanford I. Weill

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

Samuel Rutherford

It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

Samuel Johnson

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

Samuel Johnson

It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

Samuel Johnson

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

Samuel Johnson

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

Robert Greene

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

Robert Barry

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Richard M. Nixon

To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves. When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness. Greatness comes in simple trappings.

Ric Flair

I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972… he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business.

Richard Gere

Everyone responds to kindness.

Richard Gere

As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.

Rebecca Wells

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

Roald Dahl

I like enthusiasts of any kind.

Roald Dahl

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

Roald Dahl

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Richard Preston

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

Richard Rohr

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

Tullian Tchividjian

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

Uma Thurman

Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.

Tony Snow

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

Vince Gill

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

Vikram Seth

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

Rebecca Solnit

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Robert Gottlieb

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

Robert Green Ingersoll

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.