Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Enid Blyton

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

Enid Blyton

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

and look at various kinds of medical information, no matter what its source.

Johanna Braddy

I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

Joanna Trollope

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

John C. Reilly

It's kind of liberating to be able to bring your own ideas to things, but it's also a lot of pressure, it's like screenwriting on your feet.

The kindness we've seen here -- we've never experienced that before,

James Thomas Fields

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

James Thurber

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

James Stewart

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too.

James T. Farrell

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

Octavia Butler

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

Novalis

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Norman Vincent Peale

Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

Norman Vincent Peale

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

Emile Hirsch

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

Emile Zola

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

Emile M. Cioran

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

Ellen DeGeneres

I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Epictetus

It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

Epictetus

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Epictetus

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Emily Giffin

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

Emily Giffin

It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

Emily Dickinson

By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

Ellsworth Huntington

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

Elliott Smith

I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

Ellen Page

Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational.