Quotes About Act

Dharma is born mysteriously out of the intersection between The Gift and The Times. Dharma is a response to the urgent—though often hidden—need of the moment. Each of us feels some aspect of the world's suffering acutely. It tears at our hearts. Others don't see it or don't care. But we feel it. And we must pay attention. We must act. This little corner of the world is ours to transform. This little corner of the world is ours to save.

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The girl who played Gwendolen stood out like a good deed in a naughty world.

Seize the moment . Act now.

Later, with strange galaxies turning in slow gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had ever been so sweet, so full

losers so dumb that they mistook wrapping themselves in the chains of addiction as an act of rebellion.

Choose to do more than just exist

The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.

Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very core of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

The act of love is a confession.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

The characters act for reasons that they can't control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it's all just puppetry on the part of the writer.

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.

the Will (without any metaphysical refining) is, That by which the mind chooses any thing. The faculty of the Will, is that power, or principle of mind, by which it is capable of choosing: an act of the Will is the same as an act of choosing or choice.

By particular and occasional moral Inability, I mean an Inability of the will or heart to a particular act, through the strength or defect of present motives, or of inducements presented to the view of the understanding, on this occasion.—If

Sacrifice is at the heart of both politics and family. Both parent and citizen understand themselves as subject to a demand for sacrifice. They recognise the demand as legitimate because they live in the world of meanings that the sacrificial act affirms. Sacrifice is, accordingly, the way of being in a meaningful world. Sacrifice, we say, is an act of love. In love, we are willing to sacrifice, and through that sacrifice we simultaneously create and discover the subject that we are.

Non sarebbe male se potessimo essere certi di saper fare un atto di pura carità prima della fine.

The blue sky, the moral act, the moment of grief have their absolute validity, independent of the before and the after.

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless.

A cultura é memória muscular institucional, que não se baseia em como a organização aspira a atuar, mas em como realmente atuou no passado.

They will act in the name of a God they cannot hear, a God from whom they are more and more distant, and the result will be war, massacre, genocide, torture. In other words, the four faces of evil.

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.