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Quotes About Kindly

We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base; but the nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
~ Plutarch
I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.
~ Sam Neill
Habbershaw, a kindly widow with six cats and one Chihuahua named Max—who was a nervous wreck—probably because the cats were all bigger than he was. Mrs.
~ Weldon Burge
And when it ends, only those places where you have known sorrow are kindly to you. If you revisit the scenes of your happiness, your heart must burst of its agony. And
~ Dorothy Parker
They were simple, kindly peasants, almost as close to nature as the animals with which they journeyed... She wondered if, in the years to come, any remnant of the faith she preached would stay with them, and be of help to them in their troubles.
~ Alan Burgess
You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.
~ Brandon Sanderson
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
~ George Santayana
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
~ George Santayana
When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.
~ T. S. Eliot
'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.'
~ David Gemmell
I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.
~ Elizabeth Moon
Bodily fatigue, which nearly always accompanies this hateful malady, can wear down the spirit. And how can the Holy Spirit work with a vessel that's leaking as fast as he can fill it?" "If I know you," the bishop continued, kindly, "you are not resting. You are not recreating.
~ Jan Karon
Discipline with young children is mostly about deciding what you will do (and kindly and firmly following through) than with what you expect your child to do.
~ Jane Nelsen
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,Frosty, but kindly.
~ William Shakespeare
The earth also kindly teaches men justice, at least such as are able to learn; for it is those who treat her best that she recompenses with the most numerous benefits.
~ xenophon ii
Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you
~ Leyla Zana
I have never understood why the pig is an animal whose name is used in derision. He is intelligent and kindly, often benevolent, in fact; in short, totally with it.
~ Jean Shepherd
unless I am mistaken, it was Mr. Welch himself (an adamant total abstainer) who persuaded American Protestantism to abandon what the Lord obviously thought rather kindly of.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
And don't try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty.
~ Kim Harrison
Nonsense!" said the Emperor — but in a kindly, sympathetic tone. "Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. For before your head has time to spoil you can have it canned, and in that way it may be preserved indefinitely.
~ L. Frank Baum
No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
~ Bob Dylan
It is strange to see these enemies of ours so close up. They have faces that make one think—honest peasant faces, broad foreheads, broad noses, broad mouths, broad hands, and thick hair. They ought to be put to threshing, reaping, and apple picking. They look just as kindly as our own peasants in Friesland.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
~ Nellie Bly
And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be ended, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things. Or sometimes he sitteth by the river's edge to lament the forgotten things that drift upon it. A kindly god is Jabim, whose heart is sore if anything be lost.
~ Lord Dunsany