Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clarence Darrow

The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.

Clarence Darrow

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

Danny Elfman

I took part of Alan Silvestri's theme on the original [movie], which I really liked, and I pulled it into it new theme, which became kind of a hybrid. I really enjoyed that.

David Foster Wallace

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

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.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Ambrose Bierce

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Ambrose Bierce

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Ambrose Bierce

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

Ambrose Bierce

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

Ambrose Bierce

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

Ambrose Bierce

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

Alice Sebold

I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's like walking down the street - what you leave behind is still there, even if you never go back and revisit it.

Alice Munro

Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.

Alice Childress

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

Alice Cary

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.

Albert Schweitzer

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Camus

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Albert Camus

Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.

Amelia Earhart

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

Amelia Earhart

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Anna Sewell

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.