Single Act Quotes

35 quotes by 30 authors

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
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
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
While the wordÂ charityÂ connotes a single act of giving,Â justiceÂ speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that… — Rachel Held Evans
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
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
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
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
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
A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change. — Andy Stanley
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
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
One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion. — Saint Francis de Sales
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. — Barry Goldwater
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
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
forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice — Diana Gabaldon
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

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