Single Act Quotes
35 quotes by 30 authors
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The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
— William James
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I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that…
— Rachel Held Evans
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I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history,…
— Joseph Rotblat
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I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the…
— Sam Houston
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The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment,…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our…
— John Robbins
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Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste,…
— John L'Heureux
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A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.
— Andy Stanley
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Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which…
— Alfred Kazin
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The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life…
— Charles Spurgeon
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One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as…
— C.S. Lewis
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
— Barry Goldwater
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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution…
— Marc Morial
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forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice
— Diana Gabaldon
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Who Wrote These Single Act Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 35 Single Act Quotes, led by these top contributors: