A Quotes
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“An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.”
Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
“An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.”
Source: Pragmatism and Other Writings
“An act of consciousness always adopts a point of view by classifying world happenings into favorable, unfavorable, or neutral categories. The consciousness is an observer, reporter, and responder to world events. Writers are perhaps the most conscious observers; they are constantly examining a continuous sequence of events transpiring in the temporal world and partitioning these occurrences into distinct cerebral units. When we read the works of an author, we ask ourselves what is the author’s pathos. When we tell our personal stories, we also adopt a point of view, and reveal our own melody of mental thoughts that describe the gravitonic center of the psyche.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An act of evil is the death of wonder”
Source: The Boy Detective Fails
“an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.”
“An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.”
“An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.”
“An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.”
Source: Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck
“An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to emulate its author. For that, we should learn what we can of the whole experience of the subject, the hero's life, as it was before and after, and believe that trying to emulate the character it reveals is one tried way to prepare for the tests that might await us and gain hope that our courage will not be wanting in the moment.”
“An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.”
Source: A Trout in the milk: a composite portrait of Richard Hugo
“An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own”
“An act of kindness blossoms our lives with gladness.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“An act of kindness can teach a man more than mere knowledge.”
“An act of kindness is a ripple that can create a wave of hope, touching the lives of countless others.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II
“An act of kindness is uplifting to the soul.”
“An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.”
“An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.”
Source: Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One
“An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.”
“An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis of meditation. Not of faith in something outside you--a metaphysical buddha, an unattainable ideal, or someone else's words. The faith is in yourself, in your own 'buddha nature.' You too can be a buddha, an awakened being that lives and responds in a wise, creative, and compassionate way.”
“An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.”
“An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.”
“An act of thinking without restriction- without boundaries or rules can lead to the point of no return.”
“An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.”
“An act of translation is an act of betrayal.”
“An act of unconscious discrimination that is the result of social conditioning is still intentional if not conscious.”
“An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.”
“An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.”
“An act so vile, even unforgivable from a mother.”
Source: Tajrish
“An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.”
“An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.”
“An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'”
“An action carried out through human effort may be well planned, well performed
and properly accomplished, and yet be thwarted by fate. But likewise
a fated action, something not carried out by humans, may be frustrated by
human effort, heir of Bharata, as happens with cold and heat, rain, hunger and
thirst. And a man whose being is constrained by fate may none the less opt to
carry out some different action, and fate does not prevent him from doing so.”
Source: Mahabharata
“An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.”
“An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.”
“An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.”
“An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.”
“An action is at least a billion times less difficult to choose than a reaction.”
“An action is better than an inaction. Propose to achieve a result and think no less than that.”
“An action is breath, and life of one's words”
“An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.”
“An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.”
“An action of God may be the only thing that can save the Church today.”
“An action taken with positive thoughts will never produce negative results.”
“An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.”
“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
“An active and creative reader is a re-reader.”
Source: Lectures on Literature
“An active engagement with written material through reflective thought gained by reading and writing leads to intellectual growth. A person whom fails to read and write will experience mental stagnation. Failure to cultivate ideas by exposing oneself to written material limits a person’s resources to what they see and hear. Passively reviewing external stimuli might lull a person into believing that they are actively thinking and growing. The more external stimuli a person exposes themselves to, the less time that is available for pursing mental, emotional, and spiritual growth.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.”