A Quotes
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“Acts of kindness do not cost money nor does sincere gratefulness cost anything. However, the joy it can spread is what money cannot buy.”
Source: HOW TO LIVE LIFE? SBOP LIVING - FOR LIFE AFTER 55/60
“Acts of Kindness Transcends All Languages - Kailin Gow, Amazon Lee Adventures”
“Acts of love, for me, are leaps of bravery.”
Source: Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
“ACTS OF LOVE
Love is not a word
Or a thought.
It is the name for
An action
That breathes from its light.
What do you
DO
In Love's name?
And is it only done
Outside
In the light?
Or with an inner
Flame
Illuminating
Love's
TRUE
Name?
I want to know.
Are your actions
Done by remote
Or with
SOUL?
And when you say
You love someone,
Does a light go off
Inside at all?
What have
YOU
Done
In the
Name of
LOVE?
Because,
Really,
I want to know.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Acts of psychological abuse include berating or humiliating the victim; interrogating the victim; restricting the victim's ability to come and go freely; obstructing the victim's access to assistance (e.g., law enforcement; legal, protective, or medical resources); threatening the victim with physical harm or sexual assault; harming, or threatening to harm, people or things that the victim cares about; unwarranted restriction of the victim's access to or use of economic resources; isolating the victim from family, friends, or social support resources; stalking the victim; and trying to make the victim think that he or she is crazy.”
Source: DSM-5 Guidebook: The Essential Companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
“Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.”
“Acts of terror by governments
are still terror all the same,
genocide wrapped in diplomacy
is just murder by another name.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Acts of terror committed by a government is still terrorism.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.”
“Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.”
“Acts of violence committed in broad daylight, without hesitation and without regret. Commanding officers who would have encouraged, no even demanded such displays of brutality.”
Source: Human Acts
“Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.”
“Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.”
Source: On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man
“Acts perpetrated by women, particularly attractive women, get far more media attention.”
“Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.”
“Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.”
Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice
“Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.”
“Actual artists are like mythological creatures,' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.”
Source: City on Fire
“Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by cogitating on the word, or acronym, 'WASP.' First minted by E. Digby Baltzell in his book
The Protestant Establishment
, the term stood for 'White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.' Except that, as I never grew tired of pointing out, the 'W' was something of a redundancy (there being by definition no BASPs or JASPs for anyone to be confused with, or confused about). 'ASP,' on the other hand, lacked some of the all-important tone. There being so relatively few Anglo-Saxon Catholics in the United States, the 'S' [sic] was arguably surplus to requirements as well. But then the acronym AS would scarcely do, either. And it would raise an additional difficulty. If 'Anglo-Saxon' descent was the qualifying thing, which surely it was, then why were George Wallace and Jerry Falwell not WASPs? After all, they were not merely white and Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, but very emphatic about all three things. Whereas a man like William F. Buckley, say, despite being a white Irish Catholic, radiated the very sort of demeanor for which the word WASP had been coined to begin with. So, for the matter of that, did the dapper gentleman from Richmond, Virginia, Tom Wolfe. Could it be, then, that WASP was really a term of class rather than ethnicity? Q.E.D.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.”
“Actual conversation is still okay... to a writer who types all day, texting is like never leaving work.”
“Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.”
“Actual director general de Comunicación Social, Arnoldo Valle Leyva, quien hasta el día de hoy continúa con dicha labor, destaca la UAS en un comunicado.
“En nuestras familias y en nuestra sociedad hay dos preguntas que se hace a nuestros niños y jóvenes: ¿Qué quieres ser cuando seas grande? y ¿Ya sabes qué vas a estudiar?.. para muchos la respuesta es sencilla porque tienen clara una vocación, para otros esa decisión es más difícil, por lo que resulta necesario orientarlos para que tomen una de las decisiones más importantes de su vida, que es su carrera profesional y que los va a guiar durante toda su vida” - Arnoldo Valle Leyva, Culiacán Sinaloa. Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa”
“Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in Downing Street That he had a brother, who had a friend, Who knew when the war was going to end.”
“Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.”
“Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.”
“Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.”
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.”
“Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.”
Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“Actual lasting change is independent of law and policy. Change reliant on policy has a very short life-expectancy.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Actual needs of life are rather little.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.”
“Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.”
Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future
“Actual plans for how we help the economy, how we help the environment, how we help [deal with] violence in our cities. These are things that Hillary Clinton has always brought the conversation back to, when he's gone vulgar and he's gone low.”
“Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.”
Source: Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews, Book Reviews, Articles, Letters to the Editor, Reports, Statements, Complaints
“Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.”
“Actuality is an active energy and reality is the consciousness that it’s there. Energy is important and differentiating between them because we aren’t conscious of every energy. An important factor to look at when determining what is real is our consciousness. Our senses determine if we are conscious of an actuality. If we can’t hear, see, touch, smell, or taste it then we disregard it. We can’t see the wind, but we can hear it and feel it. These two senses make us conscious that it’s there. Things that are beyond our limited consciousness are only brought to reality when we create tools to experience them.”
Source: True Blue
“Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.”
“Actualization is not just the manifestation of your individual experience of the truth; it is your life interconnected with a tree’s life, a bird’s life, water’s life, spring’s life, autumn’s life, and the life of the whole universe.”
Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
“Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.”
“Actualize the dreams now and don’t procrastinate them for the future. Use every second, minute and hour that you have to fulfill life’s calling, your purpose, and your dreams.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.”
“Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.”
“Actually, 4th brother hides his ideas very deeply, and it’s extremely hard for him to get too close to anyone. Although I can help to share some of his worries, however, he’s lonesome after all…Ruo Xi, as long as you’re willing, you really can open 4th brother’s heart. And only you can, because you can understand his ambition and understand his pain. -13th Prince”
“Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than the clothes in the laundry basket or the dishes in the sink. It's more a matter of the attention you're willing to bring to them, where you're willing to allow meaning and pleasure and the light to escape.”
“Actually, add TV, movies, and books to that. There are hardly any plus-sized leading ladies. Do you realize there's not even one Disney heroine who's fat? The closest you get is that little Lilo chick, who's like six, and her story isn't even a romance. Stitch is a blue alien who's a friendly pet. I mean, are they trying to say girls who have a little pudge aren't worthy of love? Because that's what it feels like.”
Source: Cupcake