Speak Kind Words Quotes

#1. My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

Elfriede Jelinek

#2. One of the nicest things you can do is to speak kind words about someone behind his or her back.

Molly Friedenfeld

#3. The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'

Eknath Easwaran

#4. Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him was the sense of absence.

Haruki Murakami

#6. May we greet each other with a smile, hug and speak kind words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. My love for Sydney burned just as strongly. Life was good.

Richelle Mead

#8. Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

Beth Kephart

#9. On the site you plan to hit, it's going to beef up security." "But we'd be looking for a killer. Not a thief.

J.D. Robb

#10. The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

Claude Debussy

#11. Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

Rudy Rucker

#12. I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.

Arnold Newman

#13. Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.

Jincy Willett

#14. It was the kind of closeness that didn't need conversation to sustain itself: quite often we would meet, travel to the gym, work out on the weights, box a few rounds, spend half an hour sparring at karate, and speak no more than ten words to one another.

Gregory David Roberts

#15. Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.

Billy Crystal

#16. When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

Emile Chartier

#17. You have been given a mind to solve problems for others,
a heart to feel compassion for others,
a mouth to speak kind words to others,
ears to hear the plight of others,
eyes to look out for others,
and hands to sustain others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Elijah didn't know how to say no to the man. Wait. He knew how to say no, but Crane didn't know how to listen.

Lisa Henry

#19. What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Stephen King

#20. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

#21. I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

Donald Freed

#22. Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, both dark and bright, and they will ensnare your soul.

Robert Beatty

#23. It wasn't sexy," he said.
"It was a little sexy," Simon said ...
"It wasn't," said Alec.
"I had some feelings," said Simon.

Cassandra Clare

#24. Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.

Tara Brown

#25. The problem is that those who produce the emissions do not pay for that privilege, and those who are harmed are not compensated.

William D. Nordhaus

#26. There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Terry Pratchett