Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grantland Rice

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

John Dryden

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

John Lyly

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

Jodie Foster

I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

Julie Burchill

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

Josh Holloway

I'm a private kind of person.

Joseph Lancaster

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Karen Allen

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Karen Armstrong

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

Katharine Hepburn

Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

Josh Radnor

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Josh Radnor

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Josh Radnor

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.

John Keats

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

John Kenneth Galbraith

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

Juliette Lewis

Music is kind of my everything.

Julianna Margulies

I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional.

Jules Renard

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

KaDee Strickland

I'm kind of obsessed with food - I really am.

Juvenal

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Ouida

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Kathryn Hahn

I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.

Kathryn Stockett

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

John Podhoretz

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

Nick Carter

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

Nancy Horan

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

P. G. Wodehouse

the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

P. G. Wodehouse

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

Ovid

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

Paul Feig

I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

Paul Bloom

I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.