Acts Quotes

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Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread,… — Michael Lerner
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts… — Guru Nanak
We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act. — Michael Josephson
Great acts are made up of small deeds. — Laozi
What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while… — Michael Josephson
It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute notions of universal… — Michael Josephson
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. — Oliver Sacks
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying… — Bertrand Russell
Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it. — Ayn Rand
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. — Harold Nicolson
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes,… — Harold S. Kushner
I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts. — Graydon Carter
How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a… — Antony Gormley
I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of… — Jack Whitehall
I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would… — Clare Balding
When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification… — Michael Shermer
I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage. — Shirley Bassey
A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts. — Wole Soyinka
If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of international terror, I would expect to see their… — Monica Crowley

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