Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vernon Howard

Who asks a king for a penny?

Vernon Howard

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Veronica Roth

We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.

Viktor E. Frankl

Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

Viktor E. Frankl

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

Vanilla Ice

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

Vachel Lindsay

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

Sutton Foster

I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants and jeans kind of gal, I dress really simply and comfortably.

Susanna Clarke

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

Susanna Clarke

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

Susanna Clarke

There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least of them may fly straight out of this world and come by chance to the Other Lands. Where does the wind come from that blows upon your face, that fans the pages of your book? Where the harum-scarum magic of small wild creatures meets the magic of Man, where the language of the wind and the rain and the trees can be understood, there we will find the Raven King.

Suzanne Collins

You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person

Sophocles

Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

Sophocles

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

Sophocles

Kindness will always attract kindness.

Sophocles

For kindness begets kindness evermore,But he from whose mind fades the memoryOf benefits, noble is he no more.

Sophocles

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Sophocles

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Sophocles

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Steve Stoute

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

Stephen Mitchell

What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.

Stephen Leacock

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.

Stephen King

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.

Stephen King

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

Stephen King

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

Stephen King

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

Stephen King

Writing is seduction.

Stephen King

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

Stephen King

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Stephen King

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Stephanie Miller

My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

Sophie Thompson

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.