Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Robert James Waller

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.

Robert Southey

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

Tom Ford

Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.

Tom Baker

Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.

Tom Baker

Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.

Tom Baker

Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.

Todd McFarlane

If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.

Steve Almond

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

Viktor E. Frankl

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

Viktor E. Frankl

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

Vanilla Ice

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

Vachel Lindsay

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

Sutton Foster

I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants and jeans kind of gal, I dress really simply and comfortably.

Suzanne Collins

You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person

Sophocles

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

Sophocles

Kindness will always attract kindness.

Sophocles

For kindness begets kindness evermore,But he from whose mind fades the memoryOf benefits, noble is he no more.

Sophocles

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Sophocles

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Sophocles

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Stephen Mitchell

What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.

Stephen King

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

Sigmund Freud

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

Shirley Jackson

It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

Shirley Manson

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.

Shahrukh Khan

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

Susan Minot

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.