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Quotes About Actions

Qué somos nosotros, después de todo –nuestras acciones, nuestras percepciones– sino nervios que se disparan, ritmos?
~ Flora Davis
She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Naturally, Jessie giggled again. "She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness
~ Frank Herbert
I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.
~ Frank Herbert
Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.
~ Frank Herbert
When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations.
~ Frank Herbert
These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness . . .
~ Frank Herbert
a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.
~ Frank Herbert
They're Duncan's words and Duncan was speaking as a mentat. 'In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.
~ Frank Herbert
Nu v? gr?biÈ›i s? v? dezv?luiÈ›i judec??ile. Concluziile ascunse sunt adesea mai eficiente. Ele pot s? inspire acÈ›iuni ale c?ror efecte nu vor fi resimÈ›ite decât prea târziu pentru a mai fi înl?turate.
~ Frank Herbert
I know a profound pattern which humans deny with their words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak, they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet security, they squirm in it.
~ Frank Herbert
I know a profound pattern which humans deny with their words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak, they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet security, they squirm in it. How boring they find it.
~ Frank Herbert
few understand the ultimate peril to humankind—that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.
~ Frank Herbert
When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations. It is thus we should judge Muad'Dib.
~ Frank Herbert
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
~ Frederick Douglass
Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.
~ Frances Beinecke
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
~ William Harvey
During Ronald Reagan's administration, '60 Minutes' ran a segment about the difference between Reagan's rhetoric and Reagan's actions. The show thought it had produced a hard-hitting piece; Reagan's team called up '60 Minutes' to thank them for the 15-minute commercial.
~ David Shields
I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O'Carroll couldn't get away with. I think maybe it's a leniency that they're with an old woman. It's the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.
~ Brendan O'Carroll
Acepta la responsabilidad de tus actos.
~ Robyn Carr
Porque es responsabilidad tuya que tus actos no dañen a nadie.
~ Robyn Carr
Futility can lead to thought, the laughable can become serious, and depth can succeed superficiality. Not all the time, and not necessarily, it goes without saying. Not every idiocy contains a philosophical pearl. But there exist ordinary situations, everyday gestures, actions we carry out continuously, which can become the starting point for that astonishment that gives rise to philosophy.
~ Roger-Pol Droit