Top 1200 Small Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Leading from a place of hate only fuels hateful and violent acts across our country.

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.

One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

Before a marquee tournament like World Cup, a good IPL acts as a confidence booster.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

This suntan lotion acts as an accelerator and an extender, meaning that this fire will burn brighter and longer.

Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.

The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.

Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

As with many pop acts, your shelf life isn't that great, we peaked with our first album.

Language is very important. If you are condoning acts of terror... you are giving credibility to a view that is perverse and is wrong.

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of routine.

But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

It's nice to watch great acts perform their material. But I can't say that it tweaks any desire within.

If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.