Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

Bob Dylan

What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

Billy Collins

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Boethius

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Brigitte Bardot

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Brendan Gleeson

So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.

I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.

Brian Blessed

Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

Brad Goreski

Never say never. I myself say no to things, and then I wear them. So, I'm now kind of sticking to the rule that there are no rules. Everything eventually comes back.

Boz Scaggs

I love all kinds of music.

Jane Goodall

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.

Jane Goodall

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

Jamie Bell

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

Juvenal

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

Juvenal

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

Antonio Porchia

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

Keri Hilson

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.

Lee Kuan Yew

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

Eric Hoffer

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Joey Ramone

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

We had been doing a lot better but didn't have much to show for it. Getting this win just kind of validated that.

Dusty Baker

When I look at my score sheet and I look at theirs, I'm kind of outmanned. I've never been in that situation in September. It's just one of those years, I guess.

Dusty Baker

When I look at my score sheet and I look at theirs, I'm kind of outmanned, ... I've never been in that situation in September. It's just one of those years, I guess.

Charles Spurgeon

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.

Charles Spurgeon

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

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.

Dean Koontz

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Dean Koontz

Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

Dan Barker

For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.