Top 1200 Small Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.

I have done big festivals all over Europe with hip hops acts and everything else.

Here's a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.

A lot of stuff doesn't faze me. I think it's because I was brought up in a small town, and normally, when you're from a small town, when you see a famous person, you'd be like, 'Oh my god. This never happens,' but I've always kind of been like nonchalant.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

Why not take a science fiction comic and put the characters in a small town to gain their particular perspective? A lot of that comes from me growing up in a small town on a farm, so that's what I know and what I'm comfortable with. My drawing style is also very sparse and minimalist, so a rural setting complements that.

Ladies seem very intrigued by a guy who is ultra confident and acts like he doesn't need you.

One of President Obama's first acts was to give a massive boost to America's scientific community.

True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up a small yellow fish and offering to put it in his ear he had been able to see just a small packet of cornflakes. But he couldn't, and he didn't feel safe.

The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

The private equity world is a relatively small one. There are currently probably a few thousand professional jobs worldwide. In private equity, that's probably about all there is. So in the scheme of things, the firms are all relatively small.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

As one of its first acts after coming into existence, the EPA banned the vital pesticide DDT.

Only a firm government that acts tough on fraudsters can send the right signals to the country.

I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.

I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage.

Individual acts have made Europe a civilized place and are key to its development. We must not forget it.

The world is large, very large. My head is small, quite small. There is no way I can put the world in my head. Nevertheless, I have been trying to elaborate some kind of representation.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

Everyone feels lost and low. It's how a person acts that makes them different.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

My son assisted a few directors and my daughter does stand up acts with me.

I do my own thing. I'm very much in the paradox of things. I enjoy the little things in life, what's big is small and what's small is big. It might not be the coolest thing to do, but it's important to me.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

Exactly the style of football I love is like a terrier. We are not the biggest dog, we are small, but we are aggressive, we are not afraid, we like to compete with the big dogs and we are quick and mobile and we have endurance. We never give up. This small dog has fighting spirit for sure.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

If we are to change violent criminal acts across our state, we must work together.

There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.