Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Iris Apfel

Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.

Immanuel Kant

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

Elton John

If you're stuck at a piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank and you've got to do something about it.

Ella Baker

Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.

He's very kind, patient. He's just a normal person.

Benjamin Franklin

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged

He's the same before every game. I don't notice anything different in him before these kinds of games.

Neal Shusterman

Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.

Neale Donald Walsch

Love is sometimes shown in the things you don't say, don't keep track of and don't notice. The greatest kindness is often shown in letting things go. None of us is perfect, but we can all be perfect friends and perfect partners by allowing those that we love to be imperfect. Give those around you the 'break' that you hope the world will give you on your own 'bad day' and you'll never, ever regret it.

Morgan Spurlock

When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

Morgan Freeman

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Marat Safin

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

Mara Wilson

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.

Joseph Beuys

In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Kindness is the essence of greatness.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple acts of kindness and caring we extend to those we meet along the path of life.

Joseph Addison

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Joseph Addison

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Jorja Fox

I can kind of go into the wild places and immediately feel rested and rejuvenated.

Jordana Brewster

Paul [Walker]’s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy.

Joanna Trollope

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

John C. Reilly

It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.

The kindness we've seen here -- we've never experienced that before,

James Thomas Fields

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

James Thurber

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

James Stewart

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too.

James T. Farrell

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

Novalis

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Norman Vincent Peale

Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.