We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
~By Donna Tartt ~
I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
~By Marc Almond ~
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
~By Saint Teresa ~
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 ~
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
~By Hortense Odlum ~
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
~By Don Herold ~
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.
~By Len G. Murray ~
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
~By Tony Robbins ~
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
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 ~
Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
~By Thor Heyerdahl ~
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
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 ~
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
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 ~
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
~By Jose Marti ~
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
~By Victor Hugo ~
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
~By Jock Sturges ~
On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.
~By Jean Piaget ~
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 ~
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 ~
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.
~By LaToya London ~
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
~By Robert M. Pirsig ~
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
~By Francesco Guicciardini ~
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
~By Man Ray ~
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.
~By King Hussein I ~
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
~By Alan Thicke ~
Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.
~By Matt Lauer ~
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
~By Plato ~
While Slovakia did not make the first round of NATO membership, as various requirements and reforms are instituted, these actions will enhance the opportunities to join NATO.
~By John Mica ~
Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.
~By Wilhelm Ostwald ~
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
~By Amy Lowell ~
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
~By Plato ~
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 ~
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
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 ~
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
~By Carl Levin ~
Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.
~By Richard Price ~
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
~By Benjamin Hoff ~
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
~By Nhat Hanh ~
We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.
~By Thomas Menino ~
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.
~By Jane Harman ~
If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.
~By Douglas Feith ~
I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
~By Rene Char ~
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
~By Augustus Hare ~
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
~By Jean Piaget ~
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
~By Ayn Rand ~
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
~By Benjamin Whorf ~
Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
~By Belva Lockwood ~
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
~By Walt Whitman ~
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
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 ~
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
~By Verne Troyer ~
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 ~
Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
~By Aiden Wilson Tozer ~
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
~By Mary Douglas ~
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.
~By Corliss Lamont ~
I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.
~By Nellie Bly ~
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
~By Antonio Villaraigosa ~
There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
~By Phyllis Diller ~
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