Top 1200 Small Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

Let's empower men and help them take a stand to stop acts of violence against women.

The biggest challenge Malayalam cinema faces is territorial. We operate within a small territory in Kerala, and the Malayalam diaspora across the world in comparative terms is quite small. But we have world-class talent in terms of technicians, actors, and writers.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

The Germans are very critical. They like to drag acts down. They make you feel you're not so good - not so important.

I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.

The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.

I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box office. And I think that small share may open up a little bit.

You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

I think Americans, more so than any other culture, love second and third acts.

I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.

Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small - because remember it's the small things, the size of a mustard seed, that ultimately moves mountains.

Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?

It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things happen, they almost seem to happen on a Shakespearian stage with the audience so close they can become actors too. This is partly what Joseph Brodsky meant when he wrote that small countries have big politics.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.

Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.

That was one of the amazing things about Doctor Who. Considering it is such an enormous charabanc, a centerpiece of international TV, it feels incredibly small when you are actually involved in it. It is very intimate, very small; it feels like a few people messing about with a camera.

Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.

I can still hear my mom's voice echoing through the house, reminding me and my siblings to 'Make your beds!' It seems like such a small thing, but when you're one of 15 brothers and sisters like me, those small reminders about the importance of discipline and order are critical.

But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.