Acts Quotes

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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness. — Benjamin Rush
We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural… — David Suzuki
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write… — Iris Chang
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever… — Garet Garrett
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth — Smokey Robinson
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip. — Laozi
Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one. — Harvey Mackay
There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation. — Unknown Author
Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it. — Mariella Frostrup
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them. — Alfred Sutro
I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in… — Friedrich Kellner
The flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system. — Harold Morowitz
The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom,… — Abu Nu`aym
The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in a war,… — Haj Amin al-Husseini
People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of… — Mary Alice
A nation must think before it acts. — Robert Strausz-Hupe
Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit,… — Bokar Rinpoche
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. — Yahoo Serious
Questions are creative acts of intelligence. — Francis Kingdon Ward
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. — Morris Kline
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones. — Frederick William Robertson
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that… — Thomas Merton
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this… — Katherine Dunn
The sage acts by doing nothing. — Laozi

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