Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Yancey

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

Midge Ure

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

Victor Borge

(Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.

Veronica Roth

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

Veronica Roth

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

Veronica Roth

Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked.

Robert Boswell

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

Robert Bolt

I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?

Robert Black

It’s relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

Rita Ora

It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

Rita Ora

I'd like to be the Princess. But I want a nice black crown, not a pink crown because I hate pink. I wanna be the naughty Princess from Roc Nation.

Rita Rudner

I hate learning through experience. Just once I'd like to learn something because someone was nice enough to tell me in advance.

Rita Mae Brown

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

Rebecca Black

I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes.

Thomas Muster

I'm not Mr. Nice Guy, I'm a tough cookie

Thomas Sowell

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

Robert Kirkman

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

Robert Greene

Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that people operated by, but history is full of many, many people who have gotten power by very unethical means, and people who were very ethical, who get no power, people who have the most brilliant, lovely, wonderful, nice intentions and bring about horrible things in the world because they don't know how to play the power game.

Vincent Cassel

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

Viswanathan Anand

India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.

Saul Alinsky

Last guys don't finish nice.

Sarah Jessica Parker

If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.

Sarah Dessen

That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.

Sarah Dessen

It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.

Sarah Dessen

You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

Sarah Dessen

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

Sarah Dessen

There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead. If you're that comfortable with someone, you don't have to talk.

Sarah Dessen

After all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked or lost. Here, though, in the quiet pressed against each other, this felt familiar to me. And it was nice to let someone get close again, even if it was just for a little while.

Sarah Dessen

I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.

Sarah Dessen

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

Sarah Dessen

My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.

Sarah Dessen

If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very effectively the percentages of law graduates out of graduating classes. We have far more than we ever did before and it's continued to grow, but it isn't a nice match yet.