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Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself. — Bernard Lonergan

The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people. — Al Fudayl Ibn Iyad

Not-Dave G. gave Praline a long stare, the kind of stare that telegraphed not just lust, but three or four possible sex acts. — Marshall Thornton

There is no small act of kindness. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being. — Jack Kerouac

78. "Your acts are in accord with the will of your creator. — Benjamin Rowe

We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high. — Michelle Obama

There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand. — Sivananda

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance. — Pankaj Mishra

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is something about having absolute power over another being that drives men to incomprehensible acts of cruelty. — Mark Tufo

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built. — Robert Ardrey

The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will. — Bryant McGill

When man acts he is a puppet. When he describes he is a poet. — Oscar Wilde

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live. — George Chapman

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived. — C.S. Lewis

The flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system. — Harold Morowitz

Who acts in stillness finds stillness in his life. — Lao-Tzu

Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns. — Marian Wright Edelman

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. — Benjamin Disraeli

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. — Bo Bennett

A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts. — Wole Soyinka

But I see history as a book with many pages
and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. — George H. W. Bush

Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa. — Chuck Todd

Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. — Boris Pasternak

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool. — Arthur Golden

Art is a personal act of courage. — Seth Godin

Intelligence is the ability of a living creature to perform pointless or unnatural acts. — Arkady Strugatsky

Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts-make his world your rule, and his conduct your example. — Charlotte Bronte

My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated. — Christopher Titus

Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God's face. — Rick Warren

It's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible. — Henrik Ibsen

There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions. — M. Scott Peck

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone. — Mackenzie Astin

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness. — Benjamin Rush

No earthly act escapes its eternal echoes, echoes more substantial than the acts themselves. — Geoffrey Wood

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members. — Peter Brimelow

She brutalized flour and butter, she visited wartime atrocities to milk and yeast. She committed acts of crumpet. — T. Kingfisher

I think people love it when anybody acts bad; it's not particular to me. — Kevin Spacey

The man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client. — Joseph Hansen

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. — Sigmund Freud

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. — Toni Cade Bambara

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned. — Gautama Buddha

Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness. — Emily Thorne

Be careful of your thoughts; they are the beginning of your acts. — Bohdi Sanders

The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires. — Napoleon Hill

If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness. — Michael Levy, Baron Levy

Let us hope ... that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring. — Peter De Vries

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength. — Carol Gilligan

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. — Harold Nicolson

What are called viruses are always dead and incapable of any acts whatsoever. Dead matter may be acted upon but never acts of itself. — T.C. Fry

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue. — Edward Young

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked. — Bill Johnson

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged. — William Henry Harrison

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them. — Elbert Hubbard

Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens. — Gary Janetti

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can. — Vincent De Paul

There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all. — Thomas Merton

Haste denies all acts their dignity. — Dante Alighieri

Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives. — Sallie Tisdale

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends. — Hippocrates

Whoever acts right is rich in deed — Lailah Gifty Akita

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There are building blocks of love and the very bottom layer is comfort. (from Vanishing Acts) — Jodi Picoult

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. — Arthur Helps

I can only be responsible for my orders. I cannot be responsible for all the acts of Himmler. — Oswald Pohl

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness. — Mary Pipher

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum ... — R.D. Laing

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth. — Sathya Sai Baba

After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty. — Timothy Leary

True saving faith involves "the whole personality": the mind is instructed, the emotions are stirred, and the will then acts in obedience to God. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Do you treat strangers as good as you do your friends or church family? (Acts 10:34) — Amanda Penland

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder

Acts are demanded, suicidal acts perhaps, but acts fraught with meaning. — Henry Miller

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels. — Thomas Watson

Love manifests itself in loving attitudes and acts — Sunday Adelaja

Practice routinely purposeful kindnesses and intelligent acts of beauty. — Dallas Willard

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience. — Mahatma Gandhi

Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text — Paul J. Silvia

Only by using faith are we kept from practically losing it, and, on the contrary, to use faith is to lose the unbelief that hinders God's mighty acts. — George Muller

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. — William Blake

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ... — Hannah More

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. — Tom Daschle

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day. — Dan Pearce

Men argue. Nature acts. — Voltaire

No matter how long grave acts tarry in their conceal places, light always move in on them. — Darmie Orem

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. — Victor Hugo

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.
Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright

Practice random acts of kindness, the world needs it more than you think — Boonaa Mohammed

The Church is the Heart, not the amount of Sunday services you attend because many people goes to church but still partake in Devilish acts. — Henry Johnson Jr

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. — Mahatma Gandhi

... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. — Rebecca Solnit

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst. — Marie Corelli

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious. — Pierre Corneille

The doctor that acts out of love doesn't burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally. — Bernie Siegel