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It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me, I prefer my men kinder, gentler, nice. Niceness is highly underrated by most people. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he cant blink. Which I think probably helps. -- Jason Segel
We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning. -- Gavin de Becker
Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser. -- Harriet B. Braiker
Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. -- Gavin de Becker
One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps. -- Jason Segel
Over-niceness may be under-niceness. -- Samuel Richardson
nice is such a rip-off. -- Ntozake Shange
Don't mistake niceness for weakness. -- Jennifer Granholm
Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are! -- Phyllis Bottome
Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else. -- Sue Grafton
We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness. -- Heather Donahue
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness -- Caitlin Thomas
Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. -- David Levithan
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno! -- E. M. Forster
You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. -- Mort Walker
If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch. -- Bob McKenzie
I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does. -- Andy Rooney
You know how ESPN works; they'll throw themselves into a frenzy over Tebow's white bread lame ass niceness and then vilify Johnny Football just 'cause he rages now and then. -- Dabo Swinney
Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice. -- Molly Ivins
Never trust a southerner. No, I`m kidding. They`re wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he`s an evil kind of crazy man who`s righteous. Fear the righteous. -- Nathan Fillion
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save. -- C. S. Lewis
I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. -- David Levithan
It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town. -- Judith Kelman
I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there. -- Julie Andrews
It was difficult for me to understand that, when you're kind to someone in a big city, a lot of the time, they think that you want something. I didn't understand that, all of a sudden, niceness meant that you were trying to get something out of somebody. -- Jaime King
I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity. -- George MacDonald Fraser
Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self. -- William Shakespeare
Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice. -- David Mitchell
Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness. -- David Nicholls
I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall. -- Noel Clarke
I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going to be an election on competence. -- Donald Trump
It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness. -- Roger Scruton
(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."-David Levithan (Every Day) -- David Levithan
I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier. -- Steven Weber

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