Being Nice Quotes - Page 23

• I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Nice, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

  Anna Meredith

  Nice, Reactions, Venues

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

  Cyril Connolly

  Inspirational, Nice, Writing

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”

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• Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Nice, Belief, Kind

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• I’m not a child. Don’t talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you’re worse. You’re an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Children, Nice

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Night: Number 1 in series”, p.209, Hachette UK

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• All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn’t to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Winning, Enemy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.725, Macmillan

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• Ooo, let’s see, I need to get my spicy barbecue sauce. Definitely some oven mitts, ‘cause he’s gonna be hot from being flame-broiled. I need to get a couple of them apple trees to make wood chips so the meat be nice and appley tasting. Give it that extra yumminess, ‘cause I don’t like that Daimon flavor. Ack! (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Couple, Nice, Flames

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Zarek? (Astrid) What?! (Zarek) Don’t use that tone with me. I like to know where people are in my house. Be nice, or I’ll make you wear a cowbell. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, People, House

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• You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, i mean endlessly, i've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

  David Nicholls

  Nice, Smart, Believe

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• It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.

  Roger Zelazny

  Nice, Stronger, Would Be

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• It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Would Be, Want

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2006). “Danse Macabre: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.370, Penguin

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• That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight." "Not if they're growing out of your..." Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Fighting, Growing

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• But was it wrong to put yourself first? That’s called survival, right? If you’re running for your life, you don’t get the luxury of being nice. They were going to learn that. It’s fine to wave the pompoms for teamwork—all for one and one for all—but when push came to shove, these guys wouldn’t be risking their lives for Chloe, maybe not even for each other. I was sure of it. Once things got worse, it would be every kid for himself. It always is.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Teamwork, Running, Nice

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• I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Nice, Focus, Would Be

  "Exclusive: Yvonne Strahovski Talks KILLER ELITE, the Final Season of CHUCK & Working With Streisand and Rogen in MY MOTHER’S CURSE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

  Ray Liotta

  Girl, Nice, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.

  Paul Giamatti

  Nice, Guy, Mind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 05, 2009.

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• Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Nice, Thinking

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• My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

  Eric Roberts

  Nice, Men, Guy

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• If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by
  all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the
  people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality,
  or worse still, as if it were their job to be nice to you, you put
  yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.

  Adyashanti

  Jobs, Nice, Mean

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• To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!

  Homer

  Nice, People, Everyday

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• Always be nice to people. Whatever how bad they are to you. To show them you are not like them.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Nice, People, Shows

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• It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.

  Sean Lennon

  Good Life, Nice, Ambitious

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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• People are mostly very nice, and I always say hello. I'm laid back, so I don't mind. I think if people watch the show and want to say hi, you've got to be nice.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It would be nice to be a professional pilot. I'm an amateur pilot at the moment. I've got a lot of friends in the RAF and I don't think I've ever met a group of people who love their job as much as they do.

  Martin Shaw

  Jobs, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

  Paul Arden

  Nice, Sacrifice, Order

  "It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be". Book by Paul Arden, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2003.

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