Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

Mark Twain

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Patrick Rothfuss

A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.

Patch Adams

Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?

Parker Posey

It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

Lillie Langtry

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

Laurence Yep

Kindness comes with no price.

Leigh Hunt

I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

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.

Ivan Illich

Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.

Islom Karimov

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

Idries Shah

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Nathan East

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

Keith Carradine

Walter [Hill] basically brought me into that ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and it was one of the great experiences. It was extraordinary stuff. He wrote this kind of American Shakespeare. But I played my part for four episodes, and the rest is history!

Karen White

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

Julian Baggini

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Katie Couric

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

Krista Tippett

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

Krista Tippett

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Kim Harrison

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

Kevin Nealon

It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

There are many kinds of delusion.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

Sheena Iyengar

You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny.

Serena Williams

The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa.