Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arundhati Roy

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Dean Koontz

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Dean Koontz

Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

Cobie Smulders

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

Elizabeth Strout

And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.

Booker T. Washington

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Bob Dylan

What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

Boethius

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Brigitte Bardot

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Brendan Gleeson

So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.

Dusty Baker

When I look at my score sheet and I look at theirs, I'm kind of outmanned, ... I've never been in that situation in September. It's just one of those years, I guess.

Charles Spurgeon

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.

Charles Spurgeon

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Antonio Porchia

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

Edmund Burke

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

Bertrand Russell

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Charles Bukowski

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

Eleanor Roosevelt

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

Atul Gawande

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

Aristotle

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

Doug's got a scorer's mentality, and when he's on he's been pretty solid for us. It's kind of a unique situation having someone like that come off the bench, and it's a plus.

And, yet, he was so kind in the way he went about it,

ENCOMIAST, n. A special (but not particular) kind of liar.

Eddie's a senior and he knows that we have to win for him to keep on playing, so he kind of took control.

Jarvis Cocker

Because if you give everything away then you become a kind of non-person.

Soledad O'Brien

While there is still some kind of litigation pending, why not wait?

You can kind of read between the lines on that one.

At this point, the only reliable resource is the kindness of friends and strangers.

This one kind of got away from us.

Josh McRoberts

We got a quick lift, but then we kind of let up. We had our run, and then they had theirs. We didn't respond to their run as well as they had responded to ours.

Thomas Fuller

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Thomas Fuller

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

We kind of played not to lose at the end.