Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Regan

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Simone de Beauvoir

Habit has a kind of poetry.

Simone Weil

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Simone Weil

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simon Sinek

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

Robert A. Heinlein

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

Tilda Swinton

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

Thomas Szasz

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

Sean William Scott

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

Lin Yutang

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Liam Neeson

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Thomas Aquinas

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

Thom Yorke

I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.

Therese of Lisieux

I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...

Tertullian

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

Terry Pratchett

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

Terry Pratchett

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

Terry Pratchett

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

Terry Pratchett

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.

Terry Gross

I'm not the betting kind.

Terry Gross

There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff.

Terry Eagleton

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Terry Goodkind

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Scott McClellan

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

Shelby Foote

I never cared what kind of grade I got.