Acts Quotes

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.