Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Hathaway

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

Anne Frank

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Anne Frank

And you can always, always, give kindness

Anne Frank

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Anne Frank

You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!

Anjelica Huston

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

William Shakespeare

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

William Shakespeare

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

William Shakespeare

Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court.

William Shakespeare

Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

William Shakespeare

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings:— How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd...

William Shakespeare

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

William Shakespeare

He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

William Shakespeare

An earnest conjuration from the King, As England was his faithful tributary, As love between them like the palm might flourish, As peace should still her wheaten garland wear And stand a comma 'tween their amities, And many such-like as's of great charge, That, on the view and knowing of these contents, Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death, Not shriving time allow'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Haley Barbour

Those are the kinds of things that will be discussed,

Those are the kinds of things that we have theories about, but we really don't have data.

Those are the kinds of things people would have never thought would happen.

Those kinds of things are incremental improvements that really were pretty important.

Johnny Knoxville

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

Robert Bolt

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Richard Marx

To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain

Richard Matheson

Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one...

Thomas More

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

Taylor Branch

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

Thomas Jefferson

When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.

Simone de Beauvoir

Habit has a kind of poetry.

Ron Kaufman

Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

Rush Limbaugh

I know people who have donated big to presidents. I know people who have raised money big for presidents. And they are treated like kings by the politician and his organization. They are constantly invited to parties, seminars, private gatherings where the candidate or the president will explain policy, but only to them. And they brag about it. Which is fine. That doesn't bother me.

Rush Limbaugh

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters; leadership descends from character. If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Compassion is no substitute for justice. Poverty is not the root cause of crime. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

Thomas Carlyle

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Tony Kushner

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

Tommy Hilfiger

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.