The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
~By Diane Watson ~
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
~By Marc Morial ~
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
~By Belva Lockwood ~
We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.
~By James Mill ~
I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
~By John Rowland ~
The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
~By Carlo Goldoni ~
Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.
~By Anita Hill ~
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
~By Aristotle ~
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?
~By Ronnie James Dio ~
Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.
~By Graham Nash ~
Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
~By John Selden ~
On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.
~By Robert C. Solomon ~
We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.
~By Robert Teeter ~
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
~By Greta Garbo ~
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
~By Barack Obama ~
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
~By Thom Gunn ~
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
~By William Law ~
Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
~By Sean Penn ~
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.
~By Lee Krasner ~
I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
~By Donald Judd ~
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
~By Francesco Guicciardini ~
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
~By Charles Macklin ~
If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.
~By Charles Fort ~
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions.
~By Roy Barnes ~
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
~By Thomas Brooks ~
Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.
~By Joseph Crowley ~
At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.
~By Jane Harman ~
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful for that and for the actions of this body.
~By Marsha Blackburn ~
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
~By Titus Livius ~
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
~By Howard Zinn ~
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
~By June Allyson ~
Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?
~By Frank Lautenberg ~
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
~By Randy Bachman ~
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
~By Mary Douglas ~
But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.
~By Max Cannon ~
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
~By Sol Wachtler ~
I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.
~By Andrew Bogut ~
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
~By Demosthenes ~
'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.
~By James Montgomery ~
As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.
~By Robert Barany ~
At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale.
~By Roger Andrew Taylor ~
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
~By Corliss Lamont ~
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
~By Ralph W. Sockman ~
Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
~By Georg Simmel ~
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
~By Camille Paglia ~
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
~By John Hannah ~
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.
~By Mike Simpson ~
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
~By Denis Waitley ~
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
~By Martha Graham ~
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.
~By Charles Rangel ~
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
~By George Boole ~
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
~By Harold Evans ~
Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.
~By Jo Bonner ~
We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
~By James D. Houston ~
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
~By George W. Bush ~
Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.
~By Chow Yun Fat ~
True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
~By J. G. Stedman ~
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
~By Aristotle ~
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
~By Allen Weinstein ~
I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
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