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Quotes About Acts

Esta cultura griega de la conversación la tuvo presente, sobre todo, el evangelista Lucas en su evangelio y en los Hechos de los Apóstoles.
~ Anselm Grün
The life we lead is a front for all which the frightful criminal filthymindedness of some of us has left us. A grotesque masquerade of acts & sentiments. Our ideas are only the leftovers of a breath, breath of our choked & trussed lungs.
~ Antonin Artaud
habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts
~ Aristotle
We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them.
~ Aristotle
For this cause also children cannot be happy, for they are not old enough to be capable of noble acts; when children are spoken of as happy, it is in compliment to their promise for the future.
~ Aristotle
The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.
~ Aristotle
We can do noble acts without ruling earth and sea; for even with moderate advantages one can act excellently.
~ Aristotle
Or, in one word, the habits are produced from the acts of working like to them: and so what we have to do is to give a certain character to these particular acts, because the habits formed correspond to the differences of these.
~ Aristotle
Only man can be an enemy for man; only he can rob him of the meaning of his acts and his life because it also belongs only to him alone to confirm it in its existence, to recognize it in actual fact as a freedom
~ Simone de Beauvoir
History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.
~ Simone Weil
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
~ George Chapman
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
~ William Wordsworth
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~ John R. Levine
The Divine Comedy brings together the whole sprawling welter of medieval contradictions about Rome and declares them pages in a single story: the Rome of the Aeneid is the Rome of Acts; the Rome of Caesars, the Rome of martyrs, the Rome of Minerva, the Rome of Mary; Rome, the Great Whore of Babylon (in Revelation), and Rome, the triumphant New Jerusalem.
~ John T. Spike
Tragedy comes quick and loud, while the small acts of decency that follow come slowly and quietly.
~ John U. Bacon
A few years after the Constitution was ratified, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. These four laws were aimed at suppressing political opposition. Under the presidency of John Adams, this resulted in the prosecution and conviction
~ John W. Whitehead
A wise purpose underlay every act of Christ's life on earth. Everything He did was important in itself and in its teaching.
~ Ellen G. White
The character is revealed, not by occasional good deeds and occasional misdeeds, but by the tendency of the habitual words and acts.
~ Ellen G. White
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
~ Ellen Key
True riches, success, greatness, fame and destiny are all acts of God i.e. all of the above is only decided or presided over and given by God to you/us. Thus, appreciate God for all of them.
~ Emeasoba George
Recapitulate the history of ideas, acts, attitudes and you find that the future was always on the side of the rabble.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Those small acts f love were an omen of terrible events to come
~ B?o Ninh
Those small acts of love were an omen of terrible events to come.
~ B?o Ninh
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison