Top 1200 Unselfish Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.

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.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated.

Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

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.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

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.

Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

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.

Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

We must become just be doing just acts.

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.

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.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.

[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.

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

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.

Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.

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.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

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.

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.

Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

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.

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 guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.

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.

The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.

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.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

We must choose dialogue over confrontation, and peaceful settlement of disputes over unilateral acts of imposition.

We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

Great people create great acts of kindness.

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

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.

Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.

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.

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.

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.

The doctor that acts out of love doesn't burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.

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.

Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.

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.

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.