Acts Quotes
1679 Acts quotes by 1187 unique authors
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
— John Milton
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In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:—feelings,…
— William Wordsworth
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Kind thoughts increase the flow of vital energy into your body and mind. Do kind acts now. Do not procrastinate. Kindness is like a healing…
— Sivananda
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These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
— George W. Bush
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If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world,…
— Fidel Castro
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A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there…
— Bruce Catton
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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
— Max Lerner
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Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love.
— Jude Bijou
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It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
— Robert Kennedy
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Alex Riley is a star - he looks like a star, acts like a star. He is a star.
— The Miz
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Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
— Abbie Hoffman
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A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.
— Irving Kristol
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A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a…
— Yi-Fu Tuan
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A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in…
— Nhat Hanh
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's…
— Florence Nightingale
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He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence…
— Gay Talese
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I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I…
— Desmond Tutu
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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were…
— Saint Augustine
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Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has…
— Walker Percy
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God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and…
— The Rev
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There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
— Bertolt Brecht
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