Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Yehuda Amichai

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

Yelawolf

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

Zig Ziglar

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

Brian Dawkins

Really, I was kinda wanting for them to throw to him more.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

Scott Bakula

If you're a fan of Shirley MacLaine just like I am, I'd kinda go anywhere to work with her.

Jim Calhoun

In those 11 games, we did all kinds of things. We played and got better during this period. And I don?t know if we ever peaked, per se, nor did I want us to.

I just realized that this is the start of kind of the end.

Michael Brown

His kindness is something I will always remember.

I'm thankful that it's him. It's a kind of a weird kind of closure.

I'm a vested veteran, so that kind of slowed things up.

If you can think it, you can make GIS make some kind of report on it.

Khaled Hosseini

I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

Mandy Moore

I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.

Malcolm X

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Johannes Kepler

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

James Joyce

What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

James Grant

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

Laurence J. Peter

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

Laurence Sterne

Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?

Laurence Sterne

The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Friedrich Schiller

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.

Johnny Vegas

I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.

Eric Hoffer

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.