Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's the kind of swagger we're playing with.

That's unheard of, to shoot that kind of percentage.

That's a warrior, the kind of player you want on your team.

William Shakespeare

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

Buck Showalter

We have not been kind to them, ... Between Whittleman and Danks and Teagarden, we have not been kind to the University of Texas. Maybe that's why Augie's here. Hey, maybe we'll sign Augie.

Johnny Knoxville

Unfortunately, you know, it's been a while and he, you know, ... Kind of like oatmeal, you know?

Dogen

Do no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have compassion for the young, do not have a heart that rejects or a heart that covets and have no worry or sadness in your heart. This is what is called enlightenment. Do not seek it elsewhere.

We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of lead we had.

It does kind of have shades of Soap Lake, doesn't it?

This one kind of got away from us.

The kindness we've seen here -- we've never experienced that before,

James Thomas Fields

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

James Thurber

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

James M. Barrie

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

John O'Donohue

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.

John O'Donohue

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.

John O'Donohue

If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure it, to let it become something creative and positive that contributes to who you are. Nietzche said that one of the best days in his life was the day when he rebaptized all his negative qualities as his best qualities. Rather than banishing what is at first glimpse unwelcome, you bring it home to unity with your life…..One of your sacred duties is to exercise kindness towrd them. In a sense, you are called to be a loving parent to your delinquent qualiites

John McGraw

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

George Ade

In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

George Ade

Scatter seeds of kindness.

George A. Smith

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Frank A. Clark

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Frank A. Clark

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Gayle Forman

He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.

Edward Albee

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

Eckhart Tolle

The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.

Henry Van Dyke

be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up αt the stαrs; to be sαtisfied with your posessions, to despise nothing in the world except fαlsehood αnd meαnness αnd to feαr nothing except cowαrdice; to be governed by your αdmirαtions rαther thαn by your disgusts, to covet nothing thαt is your neighbour's except his kindness of heαrt αnd gentleness of mαnners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and to spend αs much time αs you cαn with body αnd with spirit.

Henry Van Dyke

He that planteth a tree ...provideth a kindness for many generations.

Jordana Brewster

Paul [Walker]’s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy.

Khaled Hosseini

I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.

Khaled Hosseini

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

Khalil Gibran

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.