Quotes by Authors - Page 158

Nothing has happened today except kindness.
Gertrude Stein
I never fight except against difficulties.
Helen Keller
It's never what you say but how you make it sound sincere.
Marya Mannes
As perfume to the flower so is kindness to speech.
Katherine Francke
I'm not a competitive person and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive just nice.
Barbara Bush
Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James
I see their souls and I hold them in my hands and because I love them they weigh nothing.
Pearl Bailey
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
John MacNaughton
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
William Barclay
Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
Erich Fromm
Injustice is a sixth sense and rouses all the others.
Amelia Barr
It is human nature that rules the world not governments and regimes.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.
Clare Boothe Luce
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller
No matter how lofty you are in your department the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.
Bessie Rowland James
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
Marguerite de Valois
We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not no one else is going to do it.
Dorothy Height
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
Susan Griffin
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
Nikki Giovanni
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
Elizabeth Fuller
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.
Marian Wright Edelman
Art thou lonely O my brother? Share thy little with another! Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.
John Oxenham
Hell is indefinite.
Charles Williams
When you first learn to love hell you will be in heaven.
Thaddeus Golas
An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler
We may not pay Satan reverence for that would be indiscreet but we can at least respect his talents.
Mark Twain
Heaven for climate hell for company.
James M. Barrie
Hell is truth seen too late.
Anonymous
The devil's name is Dullness.
Robert E. Lee
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.
C.S. Lewis
The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.
Thomas Fuller
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
Love is a great poet its resources are inexhaustible but if the end it has in view is not obtained it feels weary and remains silent.
Giacomo Casanova
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief. . . and unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.
Oscar Wilde
Lips that taste of tears they say are the best for kissing.
Dorothy Parker
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts
He who has never experienced hurt cannot experience true love.
Tristan J. Loo
If it hurts it isn't love.
Chuck Spezzano
I'm very lonely now Mary For the poor make no new friends But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!
Helen Selina
One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
Robert Byrne
If you love someone let them go. If they return to you it was meant to be. If they don't their love was never yours to begin with.
Anonymous
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
You say that love is nonsense. ... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain an ache about the heart never leaving one by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism not intolerable at any one instant but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Henry Brooks Adams
Love never dies of starvation but often of indigestion.
Ninon de l'Enclos
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by fullness not by reception.
Harold Loukes
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell
Love is grand divorce is a hundred grand.
Anonymous
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of withering of tarnishing.
Anaïs Nin
You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.
Anonymous
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.
Rudyard Kipling
I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Anonymous
Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.
Douglas Jerrold
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
Miguel de Cervantes
Trust your intuitive heart.
Richard Carlson
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller