Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Bittman

I'm not a vegetarian. Now, don't get me wrong - I like animals. And I don't think it's just fine to industrialize their production and to churn them out like they were wrenches. But there's no way to treat animals well when you're killing 10 billion of them a year. Kindness might just be a bit of a red herring. Let's get the numbers of animals we're killing for eating down, and then we'll worry about being nice to the ones that are left.

Marian Keyes

Love and kindness go hand in hand.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Naomi Shihab Nye

only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Miuccia Prada

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

Princess Diana

All people want to be touched.

Princess Diana

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Princess Diana

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

Publilius Syrus

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

Publilius Syrus

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

Publilius Syrus

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

Publilius Syrus

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Publilius Syrus

If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.

Pierre Omidyar

I always kind of just went ahead and tried things…

Nelson Mandela

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Nelson Mandela

I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.

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.

Mark Twain

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Mark Twain

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Mark Twain

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Mark Twain

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.