Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Barbra Streisand

I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.

Arthur Golden

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

Bellamy Young

From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

bell hooks

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Kindness can change the lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

Arundhati Roy

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Azealia Banks

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.

Diana Wynne Jones

Howl has been very kind to me.” And this was true, Sophie realized. Howl showed his kindness rather strangely, but, considering all Sophie did to annoy him, he had been very good to her indeed. “Do listen. He’s not wicked at all!” There was a bit of a fizz from the grate at this, where Calcifer was watching with some interest. “ He isn’t!” Sophie said, to Calcifer as much as to Fanny..

Dean Koontz

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Dean Koontz

Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

Bob Dylan

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

Bob Dylan

What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

Billy Collins

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Boethius

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Brigitte Bardot

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Brendan Gleeson

So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.

I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I kind of want to know a little bit about everything.

Antonio Porchia

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

Brian Williams

With Kindness 1+1 always equals more than 2

Edmund Burke

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

Deb Caletti

I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

Dierks Bentley

I'm always looking for things that make me kind of uncomfortable.

Dennis Nilsen

I have started down the avenue of death and depression of a new kind of flatmate.

Dennis Muren

It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.

Deepak Chopra

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

Eden Sher

I'm kind of a weirdo about Krazy Glue. I don't know why, but I always have it in my purse.

Edgar Cayce

Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.