Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.


Mary Ann Kelty

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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
ANN VOSKAMP
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without hav...
ANN LANDERS
I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
ANN RICHARDS
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON
And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr...
ANN ROMNEY
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS
'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan...
ANN LECKIE
I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE
Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p...
ANN NOCENTI
You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.
ANN ROBINSON
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren'...
ANN COULTER
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals...
ANN COULTER
I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.
I tell them that all marriages are ...
ANN LANDERS
What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something ...
ANN COULTER
Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the quest...
ANN LECKIE
For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as
personal choice.
ANN AGUIRRE
Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt g...
ANN BRASHARES
When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my a...
ANN VOSKAMP
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
ANN MACBETH
I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.
ANN ROMNEY
Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.
ANN CLEEVES
The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character....
ANN-MARGRET