"But if we never acted except when we……" — C.J. Sansom

"But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all."

— C.J. Sansom

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12 Quotes by C.J. Sansom

C.J. Sansom has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not?…
The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God…
Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it…
Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.
The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying…
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by…
We of alien looks or words must stick together.
In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in…
Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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