Acts Quotes

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Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow… — Elizabeth Bibesco
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is… — Charles Darwin
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison… — Thomas Sowell
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. — Gaston Bachelard
Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. — Arthur Helps
Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it… — David Hume
People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth. — Sathya Sai Baba
The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children… — Sathya Sai Baba
PERFORM all acts with as much love as you would offer God. In Truth, you eat for the satisfaction of the I in you and… — Sathya Sai Baba
Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in… — Pope John Paul II
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the… — Pope John Paul II
We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them. — Francis Picabia
Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the… — Wole Soyinka
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the… — George Farquhar
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. — Mikhail Bakunin
True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after. — Edwin Land
If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains… — Max Muller
I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one… — Michael Cunningham
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. — Barbara Deming
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. — Nigel Dennis
Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely… — Steven Pressfield
I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an… — Kofi Annan
We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises .. — Ariel Sharon
To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts. — Asger Jorn
Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And… — Bart D. Ehrman

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