Being Nice Quotes - Page 4

• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nice, Inspiration, Character

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Nice, Men, Opposites

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• Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Nice, Shoes, Coworker

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2006.

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• You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

  Mira Grant

  Sweet, Nice, Night

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• Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

  Tamora Pierce

  Nice, Pages, Weak

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.105, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

  Graham Norton

  Nice, Thinking, Should Have

  "Glad to be Graham". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2001.

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• You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.

  Conor Oberst

  Nice, Ideas, Forever

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• Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

  Gary Oldman

  Couple, Nice, Years

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• I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

  Liz Phair

  Nice, Would Be, Instinct

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• I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

  Richard Pryor

  Nice, Who I Am, Care

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• i wish means: would it be nice if.. i want means: if i want it enough i will get it.

  Paul Arden

  Nice, Mean, Wish

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• You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Daughter, Mother, Nice

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• I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.

  Tommy Shaw

  Crazy, Real, Nice

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• Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

  Janette Rallison

  Nice, Feel Better, Confusing

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Nice, Would Be, Roles

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• I'd like to record somewhere really different. Rent a really big house and get a mobile in and set up in the dining room. Maybe New England; it'd be nice in September or October.

  Robert Smith

  Nice, House, Different

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Susan Compo, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.

  Taylor Swift

  Nice, Party, Kids

  "Taylor Swift: The Single Life". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Maybe I’ll keep you.” Abbot chuckled and prodded Artemis’s back with his sword. “It’d be nice to have a pet human around. I could teach you tricks.” “I have a trick for you,” said Artemis, and he fired a single blast from the gun.

  Eoin Colfer

  Nice, Gun, Pet

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• It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.

  Richelle Mead

  Nice, Understood

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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• Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.' 'My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ... 'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.' 'Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.' 'Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane.

  Charles Finch

  Cousin, Nice, Giving

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• And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Nice, Men

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Would Be, Sometimes

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.170, Penguin

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• It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

  Agatha Christie

  Nice, Men, Hard Life

  Agatha Christie (1931). “The man in the brown suit”

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• I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Sorry, Nice, Believe

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up

  Ntozake Shange

  Sweet, Nice, Rip

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