Quotes About Actions

The road to hell is always paved with good intentions.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

Not at all. But love is love. It makes you do terribly stupid things.

Trust is contingent on the evidence which one party provides the others of his true, concrete intentions; it cannot exist if that party's words do not coincide with their actions. To say one thing and do another—to take one's own word lightly—cannot inspire trust. To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

Kindness! I think that it is possible to kill with kindness....

Hij schijnt hiermee bedoeld te hebben dat scherpzinnigheid en spiritualiteit de mens niet door een hoger wezen geschonken waren, maar dat ze door onze levenservaringen worden gevormd. Het was de plicht jegens de naaste, die zin aan alles verleende en die een innerlijke tevredenheid teweegbracht, die het leven zin gaf en de handelingen van de mens diende te bepalen

Just as leaven in bread will cause it to rise, the words and actions of others will cause their bad seed to produce weeds instead of fruit.

Support has no direction. Our plan is to hold the patient - to strengthen the container - until the patient develops his own container-strengths or until the contents settle down. We do not know just how or when all this ought to happen. Worse we do not have a particularly cogent rationale for limiting our own actions...

A prominent Indian analyst, Brahma Chellaney of the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, described China's frontier strategy of constant outward pressure on its borders as one of 'salami slicing': 'A steady progression of small actions, none of which serves as a casus belli by itself, yet which over time lead cumulatively to a strategic transformation in China's favour.

We must decide whether to act as if the universe is a cosmic car-crash, in which our actions have no significance beyond their observable effects, or an ordered and purposeful whole, in which our actions continue to echo and reverberate down all eternity.

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father had done.

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

For according to a manís deeds He repays him; according to a manís ways He brings consequences.

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful in all His words and kind in all His actions.

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

He who winks the eye causes grief, and foolish lips will come to ruin.

By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him.

He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.

Even a young man is known by his actions—whether his conduct is pure and upright.

Like cutting off oneís own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.

He who digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.