A Quote by Hosea Ballou

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

Hosea Ballou

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Hosea Ballou
American - Priest
April 30, 1771 - June 7, 1852

I come out and say what needs to be said but in a manner that makes people feel comfortable.

Josh Blue

The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.

Josef Pieper

Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

Marcel Proust

I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.

Claire Denis

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Julian Fellowes

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

Tennessee Williams

A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

Cameron Dokey

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

Byron Katie

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

John Hawkes

Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all

Immortal Technique

Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?

Julia Quinn

Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it.

Robert Kiyosaki

If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals (especially in the name of profit) the cruelty is condoned and will be defended by otherwise intelligent people.

Ruth Harrison

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Charles Bukowski

All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.