Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cornel West

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

Colum McCann

He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.

Dwight Yoakam

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

Dwight L. Moody

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

When we throw up that kind of score they are all usually within two or three strokes of each other, which is great.

Jay Leno

When I worked with Willie Nelson, who is just about the nicest man I've ever worked with in my life, the sweetest, kindest man, I thought, 'If I'd have been gay, it would have saved me millions,'

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

When you have unanswered questions. Everyone's kind of unsettled.

William Ruckelshaus

There are all kinds of things we can do right now, and we ought to be taking those steps.

There are all kinds of products out there that many people just don't know exist.

There are all kinds of possibilities we're exploring. You might be seeing it showing up in Oracle products.

David Copperfield

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

Dave Brubeck

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

David Lynch

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

Confucius

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

Confucius

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

Confucius

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

Confucius

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

Confucius

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Confucius

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

Dalia Mogahed

Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more kindness. And remember one more thing: Those who remind you of this simple fact-keep them close

Darin Strauss

Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.

Dave Matthews

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

David Levithan

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

David Levithan

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

David Levithan

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

David Levithan

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

David Levithan

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.

David Levithan

hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

David Gerrold

I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.

Stephen Jay Gould

I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Stephen Jay Gould

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.