Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

John Dryden

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.

Maya Angelou

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Maya Angelou

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Maxim Gorky

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Max Beerbohm

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Marina and the Diamonds

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

Marilynne Robinson

That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.

Maria Montessori

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

Matsuo Basho

I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.

Kimberly Caldwell

I love every kind of music.

Kathleen Hanna

I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.

Karl Marx

This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.

Jules Shear

Things kind of happen organically with me.

Julia Child

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

Judith Butler

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

We've got a lot of tired people around here. People have been working all kinds of hours.

We had to do something with our roster. We could have waited but we looked at all kinds of different possibilities, two-for-one (trades), things like that. We just couldn't come up with anything that worked.

This was kind of like a microcosm of our season.

This was kinda embarrassing. It's sad to look at that score. We can play better.

It was kinda frustrating, but we pulled through, ... (The receivers) used it as motivation to get open quicker and run our routes a lot more crisp.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

Jeremy Piven

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

Jenny Holzer

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

Teens are very selective -- they're smart about their technology use. They use it for the kinds of things they need to do.

Benjamin Franklin

Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old, you'll get no money of one, nor kindness of t'other

Jim Calhoun

Sometimes I'd like to see them with more swagger. Perhaps we'll walk out of here with that kind of swagger.

Pat Conroy

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

Pam Grier

I like to do all kinds of films.

Pam Ferris

Kindness is a highly underrated quality.

Jupiter Hammon

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.