Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyndon B. Johnson

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

Luke Ford

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

Louis de Bernieres

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

Louis Auchincloss

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Malcolm Cowley

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens

Maira Kalman

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

Maisie Williams

It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

Maimonides

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

Maimonides

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.

Maimonides

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Gail Carson Levine

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

Freya Stark

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

Julianna Margulies

I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional.

Jules Renard

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

KaDee Strickland

I'm kind of obsessed with food - I really am.

Juvenal

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Ouida

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Kathryn Hahn

I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.

Kathryn Stockett

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

Frank Lampard

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

Maggie Stiefvater

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

Madame de Stael

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Haruki Murakami

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

Haruki Murakami

At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo forever --- his strength, his intelligence, his kindness. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

Haruki Murakami

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

Haruki Murakami

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

Haruki Murakami

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Haruki Murakami

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Haruki Murakami

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

Han Suyin

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

Gustavo Santaolalla

I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music.

Grantland Rice

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.