Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Chamfort

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Nick Vujicic

I'd be dishonoring God if I didn't believe I was put here on Earth to help change the world.

Nora Roberts

Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

Nora Roberts

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

Nikos Kazantzakis

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.

Neil Gaiman

I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.

Myrtle Reed

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

Monica Lewinsky

I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

Sheena Iyengar

You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny.

Serena Williams

The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa.

Michael Phelps

I'm kind of a creature of habit. Once I get used to doing things, it's like second nature.

Michael Pollan

Be the kind of person who takes supplements - then skip the supplements.

Sheri S. Tepper

Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.

Oscar Wilde

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Maeve Binchy

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

Lykke Li

I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

Lucy Fisher

I like all kinds of movies. I really do.

Liv Tyler

I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really floored me in a way that I hadn't ever felt toward a public figure before. To see her kindness was inspiring and spoke to me as a person. She was so real and so elegant..I am also inspired by what Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like Cambodia to help children by actually being there and being more involved.

Liz Callaway

There's just something that is kind of magical that happens when we sing live.

Liza Minnelli

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

Liz Phair

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

Michael Cunningham

She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.

Michael Cunningham

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Michael Novak

We talk about a civilization and love and we're seeing it at the end. So many people around the world are - that whole electronic band that Dostoyevsky imagined of love around the world - that every contribution, every moment of love, every act of kindness feeds that and is like a reservoir for somebody in need to draw upon.

Markus Zusak

Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.

Markus Zusak

And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.

Mark Twain

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

Marianne Williamson

Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

Mason Cooley

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Mason Cooley

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.