Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Morley

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Anne Bronte

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

Amy Bloom

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

Amy Carmichael

If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Anne Rice

The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.

Andrew Solomon

We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

Andrew Solomon

I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness

Ambrose Bierce

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Ambrose Bierce

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Ambrose Bierce

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

Ambrose Bierce

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

Ambrose Bierce

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

Ambrose Bierce

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

Alice Munro

Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.

Alice Childress

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

Alice Cary

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Kindness is virtue itself.

Aesop

Kindness effects more than severity.

Aesop

A kindness is never wasted

Aesop

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

Aesop

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

A. A. Milne

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Sophie Swetchine

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

What we've done is kind of taken from that survey and turned it into something we can do and that meets the school's student needs.

Alexander MacLaren

Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.

Alexander McCall Smith

We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.

Alexander Pope

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Albert Schweitzer

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Douglas Coupland

My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

Dwight L. Moody

If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.

Dorothy Day

How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one feel devout. The courteous gesture increases one's respect for others. To act lovingly is to begin to feel loving, and certainly to act joyfully brings joy to others which in turn makes one feel joyful. I believe we are called to the duty of delight.

Donald Miller

If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.