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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. -- Arthur Helps
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word. -- Frederick William Faber
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word. -- Willie Sutton
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy. -- Napoleon Hill
You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession. -- Kate Forsyth
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word. -- David Mamet
I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.' -- Dwyane Wade
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -- Leo Buscaglia
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
Family. A snug kind of word. -- Fannie Hurst
One kind word can warm three winter months. -- Japanese Proverb
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope. -- Max Brooks
That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me -- Omar Epps
A kind word will give more pleasure than a present. -- John Lubbock
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold -- Marty Rubin
When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly. -- Anatole France
The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture. -- Kenneth Langone
The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me. -- William Shakespeare
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth. -- Nick Hornby
Everybody kind of always bags on me because I use the word 'awesome' a lot. -- Clinton Sparks
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. -- William Hazlitt
A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have. -- Shannon L. Alder
Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable. -- Richard Dawkins
A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats. -- Sholom Aleichem
Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance. -- Ti-Grace Atkinson
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. -- Al Capone
Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man. -- Richelle Mead
I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate. -- Mal Peet
I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine. -- Kenny G
T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. -- Robert Browning
Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath. -- Jasper Fforde
Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path. -- Nancy Duarte
She was the kind of girl who wore dark lipstick and didn't need to speak a word to seduce you. -- Stephen F. Campbell
Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it. -- Roald Dahl
Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person. -- Fred Rogers
Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring. -- Ann B. Ross
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description. -- Alexander Stoddart
Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word. -- Frederick William Faber
If we must part forever,Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking." -- Thomas Otway
A little attention, a pat on the head, and a kind word every now and then is all your dog asks. -- Louis Sabin
What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind. -- Margaret Fuller
I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking. -- Thomas Otway
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. -- Gloria Steinem
Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true. -- Agatha Christie
In case you haven't noticed, there's not a plethora of engineers here. (Devyn) Plethora? What kind of girl word is that? (Sway) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had. -- Julia Roberts
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light. -- Audre Lorde
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There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything. -- Twyla Tharp
The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state! -- T.H. White
I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with. -- Grant Morrison
A kind word sends vibes of love, if we are perceptive, if we know how love permeates and proliferates with this little gesture of giving. -- Balroop Singh
There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy -- David Levithan
Some people find the gift of salvation. For others the gifts are smaller: a kind word, a good deed. But all the gifts are from God. -- Max Lucado
I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation. -- Don Hewitt
The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word. -- William Ames
I thought 'Twinkies' was just a word for 'cookies,' not a specific thing. They kind of scare me a little bit because they last forever. -- Tove Lo
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. -- Loretta Girzaitis
I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much. -- Lydia Davis
Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy -- Christopher Moore
A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure. -- Deborah Kaplan
The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had. -- Steven Wright
I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up. -- Bill Nighy
Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County" -- Robert James Waller
Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda. -- C. S. Lewis
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. -- Charles Baudelaire
They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around. -- Susan RoAne
Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place. -- Bob Goff
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it. -- Maureen Johnson
The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one. -- Bridget Riley
It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand. -- George Eliot
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear. -- E. M. Forster
I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly. -- Matt Lanter
Almost every day brings opportunities to perform unselfish acts for others. Such acts are unlimited and can be as simple as a kind word, a helping hand, or a gracious smile. -- James E. Faust
Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile. -- Alexander Smith
A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped. -- Alice Childress
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