Kindly Quotes

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"Working with Bette Davis was my greatest challenge and I mean that kindly. She liked to scream and yell. I just sit and knit. During the filming of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu".

- Joan Crawford

(to Dee Dee Myers, when asked how people react to his campaigning for candidates he supports) Well, I mean, to be perfectly honest, probably the most effective things that celebrities do for political candidates is raise money. You know, that`s something that you can do. And unlike, say, fund-raisers sponsored by -- you know, engineered by insurance companies or oil companies, at least what you can say for celebrities is they`re not expecting, you know, deregulation of their industry in return. So that`s one of things that I`m, I`ve been able to do and to try to help them do it. Other than that, you know, I`ve lived this sort of strange, sometimes unpleasant, but mostly very lucky life that`s involved lately a lot of media attention. And one of the things that feels good to me to do is to try to steer that in a direction of something more significant and at least be -- try to create some political dialogue. And that`s satisfying. Some people react to me kindly, and others don`t. That`s sort of the nature of politics." (Myers follows up: "Do you think it`s kind of a risk for your career as movie star to get in bed with one party?") "Unequivocally. Absolutely. And I think that`s why, you know, actually, people say, Well, you see all these celebrities. To my mind, you see very, very few. Most feel like, and probably correctly so, that to be identified with one side of the ideological fence or other risks alienating a segment of your audience that may like your movies, may want to buy your tickets, and in fact, may make it more difficult for them to suspend their disbelief when they go see you in a movie because they have you closely identified with something else. For me, part of that is already compromised, and it`s also something that`s interesting enough for me, and I don`t care quite so much about that kind of image that I`m able to do it. But I think a lot of people shy away from it, and many celebrities you see who`ve gone out there, tried to be active, have gotten pretty beaten down, you know? And so I think there is a risk, yes." (July 27, 2004, quoted in the MSNBC Transcripts)

- Ben Affleck

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

- Alan Greenspan

(upon being awarded his second honorary Academy Award in 1979, an Oscar statuette for Lifetime Achievement, "for the full body of his work, for the unique achievements of his entire career and his lifetime of contribution to the art of film," presented by Cary Grant) Oh, dear friends, am I supposed to speak after that? Cary, my dear old friend for many a year - from the earliest years of either of us working in this country - thank you for that beautiful citation and the trouble you have taken to make it and for all the warm generosities in it. Mr. President and governors of the Academy, committee members, fellows, my very noble and approved good masters, my colleagues, my friends, my fellow students. In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation`s generosities, this particular choice may be found by future generations to be a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it - the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it - must be seen as a beautiful star in the firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth and the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow. From the top of this moment, in the solace, in the kindly emotion that it is changing my soul and my heart at this moment, I thank you for this great gift which lends me such a very splendid part in this, your glorious occasion. Thank you.

- Laurence Olivier

(The spirits moved inside the cottonwood branches to listen to the words coming from the villages.) See now, ... Look at the end of the broken off branch. If you see a star in the center, then this is a good place, where people speak kindly of one another.

- Mary Louise

God of pity and love, return to this earth. Go not so far away, leaving us to evil. Darkness is loose upon the world, the Devil Walks in the land, and there is nothing worth. Death like a dog runs howling from his lair; His bite has made men mad, they follow after All howling too, and their demoniac laughter Drowns like a sea our solitary prayer. Return, 0 Lord, return. Come with the day, Come with the light, that men may see once more Across this earth`s uncomfortable floor The kindly paths, the old and loving way. Let us not die of evil in the night. Let there be God again. Let there be light.

- Robert Nathan

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

- Mark Twain

He very kindly let me set up so I could start communicating back to the insurance companies. The more I had contact with George, got to know him better, the more I realized this is a very wise man. He`s been around a long time.

- Bill Bailey

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

- Socrates

Ladies and Gentlemen, I kindly ask you to stay in your seats with your belts fastened. Obviously, this is not a normal situation,

- John Morrison

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

- Giacomo Casanova

Mr. Holthus has done a really good job. I had a lot of horse under me. He`s a horse that has some tactical speed; he rates real kindly for me.

- John McKee

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

- Adrienne Batra

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

- Alan Cook

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

- Alan Grieve

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God`s divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

- Alex Sink

We kindly tell them we`ve pulled so many people who were critically injured or killed out of a pickup truck because they weren`t wearing a seat belt because the law doesn`t require it,

- Anirvan Banerji

Our client is a compassionate, professional nurse who has devoted much of her life to kindly and gently counsel women during a difficult time in life. The ordinance violates her constitutional rights because it prohibits her from engaging in peaceful free speech as she has done for over 15 years on public property outside abortion clinics.

- Antonio Alonso

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

- Alice Duer Miller

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

- Rene Descartes