Top 1200 Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
We must become just be doing just acts.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.
The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs.
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.
The Iraqi constitution is clear in two articles: one says that Iraq is united, and the second one prevents any legislation or acts that impact its unity even from the regional side.
Gerald Ford brought to the political arena no demons, no hidden agenda, no hit list or acts of vengeance. He knew who he was, and he didn't require consultants or gurus to change him.
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or accidental - can provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy.
Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.
In San Diego, I saw Keith Urban perform, and I've seen a lot of acts, and he's better than anybody I've seen.
You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does.
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.
That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.
The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.
Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.
The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.
Great people create great acts of kindness.
We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.
The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.
It's a deal-breaker for me when a girl can't handle herself with class or acts different when you're not around me and things like that.
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.
If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of international terror, I would expect to see their faces on the side of bus.
Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.
the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.
My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated.
Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It's a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons.
What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination
I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets.
Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.
Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.
Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.
Whoever acts with respect will get respect.
Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.
The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
'Charlie Hebdo' had been nondenominational in its satire, sticking its finger into the sensitivities of Jews and Christians, too - but only Muslims responded with threats and acts of terrorism.
We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.
We must ensure that these acts of terror do not accomplish in a slow burn what the fires of the World Trade Center and Pentagon could not - subversively destroying the foundation of our democracy.
