Good Words Quotes Page 2

Real kindness seeks no return.

I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic.

Kindness in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.'

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.

Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first

Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."

One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.

What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.

There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that.

You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds;

You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles.

.. respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth.

This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Change is such hard work.