Quotes About Acts

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddamit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

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.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

people's secrets than you do their public acts.

These techniques should be regarded as surgical and/or medical procedures under state veterinary practice acts.

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

Samuel L. Lewis] The hypocrisy of perfumed words only adds to the criminality of unwise acts.

If there are unforeseen and potentially disastrous repercussions to the rash acts of the ignorant, so too are there unanticipated consequences buried in works of genius.

In sum, the Bible itself does not lay out the full biblicist program or anything like it. The Bible contains passages showing, for example, a reader of scripture unable to understand what it teaches unless someone guides him (Acts 8:30–31).

In the long run, every statesman's acts today are dominated by the dread of social revolution in his own country and those of his neighbors.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

Nature sometimes joins her effects and her appearances to our acts with a sort of serious and intelligent appropriateness; as if she would compel us to reflect.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again, and great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves, and even loved in spite of ourselves.

So what of volitions themselves? Are they voluntary or involuntary acts of mind? Clearly either answer leads to absurdities.

Floods are an act of God; flood damages result from the acts of men.

It is not so much the grand dramas of our lives that transform us as it is the tiny one-acts we produce in between.