Niceness Quotes - Page 2

• This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.

  Deb Caletti

  Nice, Doors, People

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.129, Bantam

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• Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

  Tim Ferriss

  Nice, Being Nice, Who You Are

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• Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  People, Armor, Psychological

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• I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "But...you did something nice. Why?" He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, Simple, Eyebrows

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• Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

  David Mitchell

  Nice, Watches, Needs

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• My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Kindness, Long

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• nice is such a rip-off.

  Ntozake Shange

  Nice, Rip

  Marvin Cohen, J. Gilhooley, M. Pinero, David Rabe, Ntozake Shange (1986). “Plays from the New York Shakespeare Festival”, Broadway Play Publishing

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• 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

  Thinking, Style, Helping

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

  Virginia Woolf

  Imagination, Matter, Way

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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• Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness. None of you has a cell phone. The girls wear hoodies and big cotton underpants and walk around with tangled hair and smiling, adorned backpacks. Do you know how absolutely exotic it is that you haven’t been corrupted by fashion and pop culture? A month ago I mentioned Ben Stiller, and do you remember how you responded? ‘Who’s that?’ I loved you all over again.

  Maria Semple

  Girl, Fashion, Kids

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• 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

  Football, White, Lame

  Source: theblacksheeponline.com

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• 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

  Perseverance, Honesty, Nice

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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

  Nice, Men, People

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.149, Penguin

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• It is important to be nice. But sometimes niceness can be misconstrued as weak. Should we be nice to everybody? Should we be nice only when others are nice to us? Here are some interesting views about being nice. Read these nice quotes and turn on your niceness.

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Views, Interesting

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• My niceness has a very low threshold and that little girl just sucked it dry, so don’t push me, Olympain. I don’t want so much as a single Atlantean stone overturned. Guard it with your life because the next time I come here, that’s the price I’m going to demand for your incompetence. (ZT) Nice talking to you, ZT. I so look forward to your visits. Next time we’ll do pastries, ‘kay? (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Nice, Talking

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• One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

  E. M. Forster

  Retorts

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.14, 谷月社

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• One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.

  Ann Coulter

  Jesus, Sorry, Ideas

  "Ho Ho Ho, Merry Imus!" by Ann Coulter, www.wnd.com. April 11, 2007.

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• 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

  Sports, Media, Sprinkles

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• There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.

  Peter Kreeft

  Egalitarianism, Two, Psychology

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• 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

  Thinking, Cities, Want Something

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.

  Stephen Fry

  Running, Spiritual, Kindness

  "The Importance of Unbelief". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• 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

  Civility, Junkyard, Scrap

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Passion, Thinking, People

  The New York Times, March 14, 1982.

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• Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

  Samuel Richardson

  May

  Samuel Richardson (1792). “The History of Clarissa Harlowe: In a Series of Letters”, p.275

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• 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

  Crazy, Believe, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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