Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pam Grier

I like to do all kinds of films.

Pam Ferris

Kindness is a highly underrated quality.

Jupiter Hammon

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.

Joseph Joubert

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

Joseph Joubert

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

Mike Epps

I get a lot of people trying to take advantage of me because of my kindness. I'm either real nice to you, or I want to cut your head off. There's no in between with me.

Nathan East

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

Keith Carradine

Walter [Hill] basically brought me into that ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and it was one of the great experiences. It was extraordinary stuff. He wrote this kind of American Shakespeare. But I played my part for four episodes, and the rest is history!

Karen White

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

Julian Baggini

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Katie Couric

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

Krista Tippett

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

Krista Tippett

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Kim Harrison

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

Kevin Nealon

It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional.

Mark Twain

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Mark Twain

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Mark Twain

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Mark Twain

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

Mark Twain

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

Marquis de Sade

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

Mark Millar

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

Mark Epstein

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

Mario Teguh

I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself.

Mario Testino

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

Noam Chomsky

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

Nicole Krauss

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

Mary-Louise Parker

I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.

Nicholas Sparks

Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady hand she showed how important it was to help others; with her patience and kindness she showed me what life really is all about. Her cheerfulness and optimism, even in times of sickness, was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed . . . Jamie also thought me the value of forgiveness and the transforming power it offers . . . Jamie was not only the angel who saved Tom Thornton, she was the angel who saved us all.