Acts Quotes

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Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. — W H Murray
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal… — Robert Kennedy
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.… — Rollo May
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.… — Oscar Wilde
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead… — Oscar Wilde
This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is… — Ludwig Feuerbach
If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like… — Amy Carmichael
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn… — H. L. Mencken
One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for… — Allen Dulles
You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people. — Andy Warhol
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and… — William Whewell
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money. — Simone Weil
Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious — Kevin Heath
The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no,… — Jeremiah Wright
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one… — Clarence Darrow
Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What… — Fred M. Vinson
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing… — Stephen Vizinczey
...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his… — Robert Neelly Bellah
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of… — Steven Pinker
I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there… — Emma Thompson
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world — Sri Chinmoy
Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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