Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Johnson

There was love in what he did. There was kindness. There was no meanness in him.

This is the kind of sentence that makes more sense to me.

David Axelrod

This is uncharted waters. The whole thing is very kind of stunning.

This kind of mentality makes you very strong.

Rick Ross

This kind of just takes it to a different place and is something new.

They're kind of in the middle of nowhere.

Matthew LeCroy

They're going to kind of shake some things up.

They're one of the top two or three teams. We knew they were kind of tough, and we didn't think we could keep up with them in the dual.

They're one and we're two, but we're never worried about papers and rankings and that kind of stuff. The more important thing is that those are just people's opinions, noted people, but we just want to go out there and play.

I've been all over the place, ... It's a lot of places. They kind of run together after a while.

Janet Fitch

Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.

Cassandra Clare

Will had shrugged once, helplessly. He had almost wished Jem would be angry with him. It would have been easier. He'd never felt so small within himself as he did when he faced Jem's expansive kindness.

Cassandra Clare

She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and so innate, she had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each of them from the other. Any effort to accept the loss of his family with equanimity. Any effort to remain cheerful and calm in the face of his own dying.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.

Carmen Ejogo

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

Mike Epps

I get a lot of people trying to take advantage of me because of my kindness. I'm either real nice to you, or I want to cut your head off. There's no in between with me.

Nathan East

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

Karen White

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

Julian Baggini

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Katie Couric

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

Krista Tippett

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

Krista Tippett

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Kim Harrison

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

Ivan Illich

Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.

Idries Shah

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

Mark Millar

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

Mario Teguh

I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself.

Mario Testino

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

Nicole Krauss

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

Mary-Louise Parker

I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.