Acts Quotes
1679 quotes by 1237 authors
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The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of…
— William Hazlitt
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can…
— Mortimer Adler
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From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source…
— Carl Jung
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Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is…
— Dalai Lama
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In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings…
— Sigmund Freud
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The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.
— Winston Churchill
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The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
— Samuel Johnson
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What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt Christian love for others? Over…
— M. Russell Ballard
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It is only when we love God and Christ with all of our hearts, souls, and minds that we are able to share this love…
— M. Russell Ballard
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The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.
— Dalai Lama
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Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing…
— William Greider
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By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and…
— Therese of Lisieux
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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act…
— Clark Moustakas
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts…
— Rebecca West
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By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need…
— Rajneesh
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According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If you are aware,…
— Rajneesh
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Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in…
— Rajneesh
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As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have…
— Rajneesh
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