Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Johnson

If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.

Barbara Kingsolver

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.

Barbara Kingsolver

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Barbara Stocking

There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.

Barry Switzer

Lovely? Well, thank you. That's kind of nice of you to say.

Last year we did 36 kinds of beer.

Diane Keaton

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

Demosthenes

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

Democritus

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Denis Johnson

Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

Atul Gawande

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

Aristotle

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Aristotle

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

Ben Hecht

They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

Alexandra Stoddard

Be kind to yourself, to others and everything around you.

Albert Schweitzer

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.

Albert Schweitzer

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Gail Carriger

I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

Clint Eastwood

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

Nat Wolff

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

Vivian Campbell

It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they're nice people.

Natalie Coughlin

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

Nikki Sixx

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Pervez Musharraf

We are not deterred. These kinds of things were expected,

Alan Cohen

I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.