Top 1200 Acts Of Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Practice random acts of kindness... and watch Mom!

Good music acts a healer, it makes you positive.

Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.

Reality gets created through acts of observation

The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.

There are so many stars who are very good at comedy acts.

All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit.

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

We need a presidency which acts and protects us.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

A healthy corporation acts on the interests of its stakeholders and customers.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.

Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one.

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.

Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Nothing worse than when a 6 acts like a 10.

Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.

No evil is completely destroyed nor are acts of goodness.

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

In the name of justice the most savage and revolting acts are perpetrated.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts.

Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.

Spirituality for me is the sum total of all the acts of my day.

To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual,or transgender-let me say- you are not alone. You're struggle, for the end to violence and discrimination, is a shared struggle. Today, I stand with you. And I call upon all countries and people, to stand with you too.A historic shift is underway. We must tackle the violence, decriminalize consensual same sex relationships and end discrimination. We must educate the public. I call on this council and people of conscience to make this happen.The time has come.

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

The IMF acts on the mandate of the international community.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which the ethos of containment and punishment now creeps into spheres of everyday life that were largely immune in the past from this type of state violence. This is not merely barbarism parading as reform - it is also a blatant indicator of the degree to which sadism and the infatuation with violence have become normalized in a society that seems to take delight in dehumanizing itself.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.