Quotation Explorer - 'Act'

Ultimately, having what we want is our liability. It is no one else’s. Purge the blame game. Everyone has a legitimate reason why they CAN’T get something done. It’s the will to get it done REGARDLESS. - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate

I am not so sure I should like the facts of life, but I have got over the bitter disappointment I felt when I first heard about them,... - Dodie Smith

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want. - John Maynard Keynes

I read to learn. I teach to understand. I practice to gain experience and wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

The surest cure for selfishness is to continually practice random acts of kindness. - R.A.Delmonico

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

If love is a flower of non-judgmental actions, then kindness is the fragrance of those flowers. - Debasish Mridha

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - William James

The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system. - J.G. Ballard

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end. - John Dewey

BASTINADO, n. The act of walking on wood without exertion. - Ambrose Bierce

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. - Brené Brown

Love and knwoledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving, knowledge too.. - Baris Gencel

Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time. - Moutasem Algharati

Don't Run For Success, Practice Perfection. - Bharath Mamidoju

I think it's important as a women to know who you are and what you deserve. We, ourselves set the boundaries of what we choose to accept. Instead of complaining about the men who's actions don't fit your own & move on and find one that does. - Nikki Rowe

The wisest investments are made in good health intervention activities. - Ellen J. Barrier

A man can lose everything except the will to choose how to react when faced with life challenges. - Ane Krstevska

Be focused and learn what it takes to excel in your calling. Be patient and persistent in your drive to succeed. Be ready to pay the price of success because wealth without sweat is wishful thinking. Never give up on your dreams so you don’t lose what can actually bring you true success. - Sesan Kareem

The thing about life is, you’ve got to somehow make it through the day. Don’t wait for the beautiful evening. Go on with your life. Of course, the beautiful evening will come. In fact, she’s on her way. And she’s coming to you as fast as she can. And dude, she’s beautiful. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi

En tiempos de manipulación televisiva, leer es un acto revolucionario. - - Anonymous

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life. - Brigham Young

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. - Oswald Chambers

Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I receive and love all the children of God, whom I esteem to be such, of whatever denomination they may be? - George Whitefield

Good Person, Good Words and Good Action are independent, wisdom lies in recognizing each of this good irrespective of other one or two being not Good. - Venkat Gandhi

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings. - W.E.B. Du Bois

Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions. - Dada Bhagwan

Yuki: "What can I learn from a stupid cat like you? You didn’t even know that Jason isn’t really a bear. He’s a character in a horror film."Kyo: "Yeah? So what if I didn’t? Like I’d waste my time watching some movie about a bear!"Yuki: You truly are an idiot. - Natsuki Takaya

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. - Napoleon Hill

It is imperative that you know that your activities on earth must have to it some divine purpose. - Sunday Adelaja

Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences. - Anonymous

Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special—otherwise special wouldn’t mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones—and this is the problem. - Tim Urban

If you want to find missing children put their photo's on Soda Cans, beer cans and cigarette packs and you'll increase the odds by millions some people are lactose in tolerate. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act. - Konstantin Stanislavski

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. - Frank Herbert

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.

If you are upset with another’s words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul - Jeremy Aldana

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility. - Frank E. Peretti

In the old world, we tend to drift along, victims to our own ignorance of the fact, that we can have what we want in the New World. - David Lionel Lloyd

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. - Steve Allen

Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort. - Charles F. Glassman

Wishes and wants do not transform a person; actions and reactions do so! Show the world your plans by the actions you take progressively and consistently. - Israelmore Ayivor

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart. - Linda W. Yezak

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through. - Orrin Woodward

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that. - Susan Sontag

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing. - William Gibson

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. - Shimon Peres

Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice. - Abhijit Naskar

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. - Robert McKee

[D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable. - Caroline Goode

Chuck Norris is the only human being to display the Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- you can never know both exactly where and how quickly he will roundhouse kick you in the face. - Oliver Oliver Reed

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. - Og Mandino

She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering. - Tess Thompson

A story is not a thing. A story is an act. It only exists in the brief moment of its telling. The question you must ask is what a story has the power to do. The truth of something you do is very different from the truth of something you know. - Matthew J. Kirby

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. - Socrates

Most people are just parroting the thoughts that they hear from others rather than thinking of their own to unearth the hidden facts. - Anuj Somany

Comments are free but facts are sacred. - C. P. Scott

Your thoughts are magnets. You attract what you think, and it becomes your reality. - Debasish Mridha

A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him. - Israelmore Ayivor

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― - Pablo Picasso

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary. - John Ruskin

Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did. - Jenny Uglow

Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results. - Peter F. Drucker

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - Anonymous

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous. - Richard M. Nixon

Dreaming is good, but without taking actions, a dream is just hope. - Debasish Mridha

Be the watchman of your values to safeguard your character. - Tasneem Haneed

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. - Katherine Graham

For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear. - Alijia Izetbegovic

Do you want to know what you think about most of the time? Take a look at the results you're getting. That will tell you exactly what's going on inside. - Bob Proctor

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love. - Ann Radcliffe

Um dos sinais da verdadeira amizade é o facto de esta não se modificar, aconteça o que acontecer. A amizade e a disponibilidade de nos ajudarmos mutuamente continua até ao fim das nossas vidas. - Heinrich Harrer

The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting. - César Aira

I will listen to a beautiful person much more quickly than a plain person, and I have to learn to be nice to people who are not attractive looking. - Beatrice Wood

You tend to become like that, what you like and respect. Write down your goals and take action to make them happen. Expect the best and work for the best. Devote yourself to making your life blossom for success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character. - Wayne W. Dyer

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward. - Robert M. Pirsig

Everybody finds themselves sometimes deficient in what they need, and put to inconvenience ... the richest people may easily be without something they want, and that is practically to suffer poverty. Accept such occurrences cheerfully, rejoice in them, bear them willingly. - Francis de Sales

There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater than a man listening to himself! Since an intention precedes action, it should be the reference point for any action. - Thiruman Archunan

I am an imperfect man living in an imperfect world, trying to weave through the chaotic interactions of semi-causal events with linear logic, contradictory emotions, dialectic wisdom, and mortal integrity. - Leonard Seet

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. - Mark Twain

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. - Theodore Roosevelt

Maligned –powerfully-drawn characters acting out a disturbing view of our future. -David Compton, New York Times Best-Selling author - Kathleen Papajohn

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst. - Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Actions lie louder than words. - Carolyn Wells

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy

Your outer charm and beauty attract me. Your inner beauty of kindness and a caring heart seduces me. - Debasish Mridha

Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away, - Michel Houellebecq

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. - Thomas Browne

A static action is never an action. A real action is an action in motion! Dare to do something! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. - George Santayana

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else. - Ashly Lorenzana

Loud actions, small people, loud voice, small mouths, loud world, small minds. - Mussadiq Abdul Rahim

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act. - Kenneth Rexroth

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you. - Milan Kundera

A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and…actually, no it’s just those two things. - Colleen Houck

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. - Cyril Connolly

The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and responsibly. - Claudia Jewett Jarrett

I AM NOT A WRITER.My characters simply commandeer my fingertips, writing their own destinies. - T.N. Suarez

When you gain maximum knowledge in any area of work and put it into practice, no powerwill be able to hinder you achieving your set goals. - Sunday Adelaja

USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation. - Steven Magee

To be forced to endure something because you have no money to counter it ; this fact is totally unfair and I can't, personally, tolerate it. - Laure Lacornette

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success. - Debasish Mridha

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. - Theodore Roosevelt

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices. - Heinz von Foerster

Gnostics should practice meditation for at least 4 to 6 hours per day; practicing in the morning, the afternoon and almost the whole night until dawn... - Samael Aun Weor

Entrepreneurs are innovators, visionaries—generators of new ideas turning into coinage - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate

Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path. - Sameh Elsayed

To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge. - Felix Alba-Juez

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears. - Michel Foucault

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. - Leonardo da Vinci

Life is about the journey, not the destination. As long as we persevere in mindful thinking, beliefs and actions, our internal compass will point us towards true-self each step of the way. - Glenn A. Maltais

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her. - Faraaz Kazi

Thought creates character. - Annie Bessant

Have you noticed ... that he actually hadn't made any promises to you? - Janie Chang

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. - Robertson Davies

Tragedy is actually untimely comedy - Adhish Mazumder

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. - Mark Twain

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. - Friedrich Nietzsche

You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working. - Lisa Kudrow

Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and you"ll know who a person really is. - Kemi Sogunle

The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action. - Orrin Woodward

What the United States call democracy is actually a vertical model of remote governance by oligarchs—economic barons and their political representatives. The result is that citizens in the United States have little control over what the U.S. government does. - S. Brian Willson

For happiness don't pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism. - Amit Kalantri

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. - Piaget

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. - Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. - Anatole France

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say. - Truman Capote

Everyone has a right to his own course of action. - Moliere

The universe is a mirror; however you look at it, it will look back to you exactly the same way. So extend your hand with love. The universe will hug you with a loving heart. - Debasish Mridha

There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore, Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself. Let life be funny, but never a joke. - Nikki Rowe

As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaudy display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery. - E.L. Doctrow

Every good act is like a seed that we sow. We don’t know what it will bear, but it will bear some fruit some day. - RVM

We... anticipate what's to come, then ignore what's actually here.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts? - Bryan Stevenson

Often we find a friend, not by accident, by unknown inner attraction and synchronicity. - Debasish Mridha

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. - Oscar Wilde

Their gazes locked and held for a long beat, like maybe he was taking her pulse from across the room, absorbing the fact that she was drenched and breathless. The corners of his mouth twitched. She’d amused him again. - Jill Shalvis

We become extremely vulnerable to the ones that love us, we believe in what they say, we believe in their faith held next to us. It's law of attraction to become who your surrounded by, so instead of focusing of changing another, find some one suitable to your soul. - Nikki Rowe

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life. - Anthony Liccione

government is legitimate not so much because it represents the 'general will', but because its policies are, ideally and counterfactually, the result of the public deliberation of all who are concerned by the decision - Frédéric Vandenberghe

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought. - David Brooks

Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you'll be punished with eternal hellfire. That's the same kind of "choice" an abuse boyfriend gives you: 'Either you do exactly what I say, or I'll beat the shit out of you. - Oliver Gaspirtz

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Douglas Adams

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. - Bertrand Russell

When you fail to be your own boss, You are giving somebody else the contract. - Richard Marcel I.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. - Piet Mondrian

FRACTURED FACTIONSMany cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots - Kamil Ali

You have the legs and other also have it; they have the brain and you have it! Stop thinking you can't transact the business that others can. If you do, you are raising your inflation rate! - Israelmore Ayivor

Inner negativity will attract negative energies from the universe. So be watchful of your thoughts. Don't be a magnate of negativity. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. - Dale Carnegie

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close. - Jesse Owens

Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that they're going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it's more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless. - David Attenborough

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious. - Donna Lynn Hope

There's three different kinds of Christian," said Cash. "There's preaching Christians, church-playing Christians, and then there's practicing Christian. I'm trying very hard to be a practicing Christian. - Steve Turner

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. - Robert Brault

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect. - Jack Schmitt

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason. - Baruch Spinoza

More a person could actually feel and think, less s/he would be seen getting attracted towards the material things. - Anuj Somany

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Think slowly like a snail, act fast like a cheetah. - Aarifa the biggest animal lover in the world

At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow. - Nicole Blackman

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. - Anonymous

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion. - Mollie Marti

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. - Alain de Botton

On DreamsOnly one thing supersedes the importance of thinking about a better tomorrow. It's taking action today. - Vincent Lowry

All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to. - Carol S. Dweck

Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story. - Bill Johnson

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th. - Scott Adams

sometimes we take action, sometimes we take pills. - Fall Out Boy

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. - Mahatma Gandhi

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. - Maya Angelou

Always there is a bitch lies in every virgin heart, and a virgin always lies in the heart of a bitch. To be honest, there cannot ever be anyone who is one-man or one-woman human, in action or may be in thought! - Argha

I am thankful that in the giving we receive, and what we receive is the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we give is always bigger once we’ve given it away. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Bible is useful because it opens our eyes, and because it’s highly impractical to walk through life with our eyes closed. - Peter J. Leithart

He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed. - Saadi

A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. - William Shakespeare

Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them. - Debasish Mridha

The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them. - E. Hoffmann Price

Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooking, and did not despise popular pleasures like pubs and vulgar seaside resorts. In many ways, his investigations into ordinary life and activity prefigure what we now call 'cultural studies. - Christopher Hitchens

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. - William James

Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions. - Amit Kalantri

I put all my positive energy into positive action. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. - Hedy Lamarr

If you want self-esteem. Do estimable acts ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir - Cupcake Brown

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones--I had a childhood. - Carolyn Byers Ruch

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be. - Robert Collier

Actions reveal… If you have to TELL me you’re honest, caring, generous, spiritual, kind, loving, and a good person... you’re doing it wrong. - Steve Maraboli

If a person listens routinely to the sermon but doesn’t show the commensurate good change in own daily action, then the fact is s/he is actually not hearing anything of the spiritual master’s oration. - Anuj Somany

Imagination is activating the SIM card of your super conscious. - RVM

Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge. - Robert C. Shannon

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors. - Simone Weil

I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened. - Martha Graham

Never let anything be a setback in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions. - Gugu Mona

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense. - Holly Lisle

It's paramount we take ownership of our lives. Sadness is greatly due to our having sacrificed ourselves over to a power outside of ourselves. We need to be proactive in creating positive thoughts and actions that will align ourselves with where we want to be and what we want to feel in life. - Kaiden Blake

In your Mind you live with n number of characters - Tushar Saxena

I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all. - Scott Lynch

You are the author of your success, daily writing a new page to the book of your life. Be inspired. Believe in yourself. Practice at becoming an excellent person at what you want. Rome wasn't built in a day, so have patience, as you build your life with success and boldness. - Mark F. LaMoure

So many sit around, waiting for superman, when in fact, Wonder Woman lies within. - Kristina Canady

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths. - L.M. Montgomery

The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions. - Fredrich Von Bernhardi

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you. - J.R. Tompkins

When you realize that emotions aren't truth and they are simply reactions to life circumstances, they can no longer hold you captive. - Diamante Lavendar

Don’t be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose. - Tony Curl

If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing freedom of choice, then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact. - Geoffrey Wood

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character. - Israelmore Ayivor

Not everyone takes action to harvest the experiences of the seasons of life in order to enjoy their bounty. - Andrea Goeglein

It is not the beauty of nature, but it is our dream-filled actions that create our futures. - Debasish Mridha

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. - Howard Zinn

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character. - Winston S. Churchill

if everyone criticizes you, silenced them by doing a unique act !.إذا انتقدك الجميع أسكتهم بفعلك لأمر إستثنائي - Hicham LM Kamelionaire

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state. - Robert Henri

The true "LOVE FOR HUMANITY" is an act of Heroic Genius. - Henry Johnson Jr

When lust combines with love, feelings like dissatisfaction,lack of trust,lack of understanding,jealousy and possessiveness are produced - Nirja

Strong reasons make strong actions. - William Shakespeare

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. - Brendan Francis Brown

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it. - Enza Vita

We believe more readily in the abstract application of God's promises than we do in their application to us personally. - Matt Chandler

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon - Garrison Keillor

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Benjamin Franklin

Haven’t you seen and heard that every word I seed for you is a feeling, and every thought I bloom bears a meaning? Rivers of words, blending together for the same course, the action of my being: my universe, your beauty. - Soar

Believers if opt to practice Favoritism will fail miserably to build a relationship of Mutual Trust & True Respect for themselves. - Santosh Thankachan

Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen. - Martin Luther

They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor. - Shannon L. Alder

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. - Núria Añó

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town. - Eleanor H. Porter

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women? - Anton Chekhov

Now I just act like I don't remember; Mary acts like she don't care. - Bruce Springsteen

Never confuse movement with action. - Ernest Hemingway

MAGNET, n. Something acted upon by magnetism. - Ambrose Bierce

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle

Don't just talk, act. - Debasish Mridha

Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment (Brett, 1996; Ross, 2000). - Rachel E. Goldsmith

Your actions reveal your thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute. - Aristotle

All human behaviour, language, thoughts, feelings, actions, and consciousness emerge from this massively interconnected network of neurons. Each neuron is pretty dumb; it either fires in a certain situation or it doesn’t, but out of this mass dumbness comes great cleverness. - Trevor Harley

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. - Samuel Johnson

I have to set an example, now more than ever. Facing death is the ultimate test of character. – Cmdr. William Riker - Star Trek The Next Generation

The life-tree of practice is single-minded application. - Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

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Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them - Constancev Chuks Friday

It is a fact: Of all the people we ever know in our lifetime, the only thing we have in common with them is a handful of shared experiences. - Joel T. McGrath

Hey, the ubiquitous Leak-Cam is to 2010 as the bottom-of-the-screen news ticker was to late 2001: What you're seeing beneath the news anchor or talking head may not actually include any new information, but you feel like you're watching something dramatic. - Jim Geraghty

You are the byproduct of your level of consciousness, thoughts, and actions. - Debasish Mridha

but even the facts do not always tell the truth - Paul Auster

I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. - Philip Plait

It will, It had, It is happening, depending on how you think and react about it. - Savan Solanki

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Failure is defined by our reaction to it. - Oprah Winfrey

RESTITUTOR, n. Benefactor; philanthropist. - Ambrose Bierce

I believe that God opens doors but closes them if you don’t act when given the opportunity. - Shellie M. Saunders

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists. - Jefferson Smith

Get out of your own way... What we call 'lack of willpower' is actually just losing an argument with an outdated version of yourself. - Steve Maraboli

Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude, so as to produce a free act that expresses the most possible in one given condition or another. -- , The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 73 - Gilles Deleuze

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. - H. G. Wells

If you actively serve God where He places you, you will never have to be sorry for lost time. - Sunday Adelaja

Where is truth??Somewhere in the story... somewhere around the facts.- There should be a truth some kind of feature, if there isn't... it goes interesting how in the hell is build a story with a truth... It's pretty interesting journey! - Deyth Banger

Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no less than a carnal and immoral act rather than as understanding their orientation and identity as an intrinsic part of who they are doesn't lessen the harshness and cruelty of that rejection. - Christina Engela

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

As Chief Luthuli said, 'When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime. - Nelson Mandela

You wanna start a fire I've got the coal, that's what history is to me. And it attracts the right person to do something with it to create the next fire. And fires are fuel and food and energy and life. - Nora Guthrie

You can keep pondering on which thing to do first or which path to take or by simply taking action now of most any kind, you may just find yourself on the way to where you most needed to go. - April Bryan

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. - Mahatma Gandhi

Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer. - Ezra Pound

What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a modem can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. - Dave Barry

Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one. - Charles de Gaulle

All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children. - Stefan Molyneux

Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship. - John Piper

Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" ) - Erik Pevernagie

Live as though you will lose your power of love and attraction at any moment. - Debasish Mridha

Los Sufis sostienen que la experiencia y el conocimiento superior le llegan al hombre o mujer en exacta concordancia con su valor, capacidad, y esfuerzo puesto en ello. - Idries Shah

Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and slogans, but its actual view of man and of existence. - Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER. - Richie Norton

Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist. - Gabriel Brunsdon

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor! - Greg Curtis

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. - M.F.K. Fisher

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. - Aldous Huxley

RVM Thoughts for Today - "Things will happen.You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse . React Positively. Live Happily - R.v.m.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. - Confucius

It is absolutely certain that we must act to protect nature much more efficiently than ever before. Tomorrow – when mankind will step forward to a totally uncertain future – will be too late. - Eraldo Banovac

The size of action has no value but its aim. - Alireza Salehi Nejad

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live - Albert Schweitzer

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. - H.L. Mencken

Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear. - J.H. Lee

Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character. - Hugh B. Brown

ALONE, adj. In bad company. In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By spark and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the stone, Had cherished secretly alone. Booley Fito - Ambrose Bierce

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain. - Michael Bassey Johnson

do not be so quick to say "okay" it is alright to disagree with the action yet love the person. - P.M. MATHIS

Poetry is the science, the exact science, of feeling. - Marty Rubin

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers. - Ester Buchholz

Planning is the key to success, course he who fails to plan has actually plan to fail - david ibeyeomie

All of the the books, the readings, the workshops, the ah-ha moments won't change your life unless you put actions behind them. - Eileen Anglin

Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really can't do in the first place. You can no more ban a word than you can ban the air. In fact, language is a lot like air – ban it all you want, it's still there. - Andrew Heller

Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don't spank your child show them some attention. - Alcurtis Turner

Lots of people say that everything that we possess, experience and want; like books, music, films and holidays are all just a big distraction from death. But I think differently. I think it’s the exact order and presence of these trivial things that make life worthwhile and bearable. - Frieda Robson

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street- cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. - Terry Pratchett

To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen. - Jerome Groopman

I think Amy Winehouse's decision not to go to rehab was a bad one. In fact, I think it was the worst idea since Dodi Al Fayed said to Princess Diana, "Ooh, look! A tunnel! Whack that seat belt off and let's have a fuck. - Robert Clark

A most loving virtue of all, is that of a cheerful giver with the right attitude of LOVE! Giving is not just a random act of kindness. It is an investment in humanity. In return you become more than yourself, you transcend - Angie karan

Poets are Prisoners8-29-2015Poets are prisonersPractitioners, commissioners &conditioners of the spoken word Caged by their own mindsWords are shackles - Debbie Tosun Kilday

...while social analysis must always be part of curriculum development and teaching, education policy and practice needs to be protected against the dangers of fads, obsessions and moral panics. - Rob Gilbert and Pam Gilbert

The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself. - Criss Jami

Prayer is a heart exercise. It’s an act of communicating with God about what’s most important and pressing in your life. - Jim George

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion! - Harvey Milk

I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged. - George R.R. Martin

Happiness can only be found if you free yourself of all other distractions. - Saul Bellow

Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance! - Hannah Witton

And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you. - Nikki Rowe

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

People think - Rebel, Adamant, Egoistic, Impractical, ProudMy answer - Unconventional, Fighter, Uncompromising, Dreamer, God's Masterpiece Perception Matters - Henna Sohail

When someone hurts you time and time again, accept the fact that they don't care about you. Its a tough pill to swallow, but its necessary medicine. - Melchor Lim

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. - Gilda Radner

I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store. - Chris Pine

All actual life is encounter. - Martin Buber

Entrepreneur, become so disciplined that even your distractions become focused. - Onyi Anyado

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. - John Ashcroft

As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower. - Farshad Asl

I think, your shadow don't leave in darkness. In fact, it gets as close as you that there is no difference between you and your shadow. At that time you both exists as one. Shadows never leave. Real love & friends are like shadows, they never leave you and always there. Not even in your dark days. - Qasim Chauhan

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. - Henry Melvill

A protest against reality, either conscious or unconscious, active or passive, optimistic or pessimistic, always forms part of a really creative piece of work. - Trotsky

CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. - Ambrose Bierce

Creativity is more important than imagination because it requires action. - Matthew Donnelly

For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution. - John Hughlings Jackson

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. - Primo Levi

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. - John W. Gardner

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. - James Carroll

Personal Responsibility is the individual desire to be in charge or in control of an action or situation. - Sunday Adelaja

Act according to your capacity. - Debasish Mridha

If all the people who were called "crazy" started acting "normal", we'd probably still be living in caves. - Joana James

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated. - Wayne W. Dyer

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children. - Elizabeth George

Nothing is more to mastery than practice and skills. Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits. - George Spafford

When you believe and act on your dreams, your dreams will become a reality. - Debasish Mridha

When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated -- with the social consequences we know all too well. - Lloyd Alexander

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise. - Margherita Hack

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. - Hesketh Pearson

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. - Mahatma Gandhi

You know we are living in dangerous time when the act of kindness is revered as an act of heroism. - Micheline Jean Loui

Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy. - Stewart Stafford

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind. - S. E. Lindsay

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters. - Patricia Hamill

It’s when you feel low about yourself, others actions and opinions will affect you. When you look at yourself as a confident person, it’s then; you’ll find the most peace and understanding, that it’s your world you have to live with not theirs. - Ron Baratono

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster. - Rick Yancey

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give. - Arthur Golden

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. - Elizabeth Zimmermann

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions. - Mike Dooley

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create. - Donal Logue

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. - Unknown

Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose. - Vikram Roy

Mastering facts is knowledge. Mastering knowledge is wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up - Frank O'Hara

You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer. - Debasish Mridha

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract. - Richard Diebenkorn

I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you’re as clever as you keep telling everyone you are. I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared... - Eoin Colfer

Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results. - Gary Rohrmayer

The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation. - Francine Du Plessix Gray

Stop reacting to the stereotypes and start responding to the individual. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do," they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts. - bell hooks

In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily. - Thomas Henry Huxley

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream. - Orrin Woodward

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement. - Albert Einstein

A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten - Soke Behzad Ahmadi

You can choose to fight your journey every step of the way or you can embrace it, recognizing each stumble or setback as a opportunity to strengthen your character, finesse your craft, and deepen your passion. Oh this journey can be beautiful if you allow yourself to enjoy the rain! - Kierra C.T. Banks

Everything is about disclosure.... chemistry... love.... reaction... you can't do anything.......A pain... a biatch... pain the ass... two women... what next? - Deyth Banger

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors. - François de La Rochefoucauld

Dominicans are in fact, Haitians by default.Since the natives named the whole island named Haïti, stop being a dolt. - Ricardo Derose

Life is meaningless. It is our actions that add meaning to it. - Avinash Rao

When we look back at life we realize no true moment defined us, but in fact the events leading up to that moment. - Chris Burkmenn

It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me. - Auliq Ice

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease. - Rabindranath Tagore

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Until you take your profession as passion, each and every activity looks as a headache - Vignesh Sv

There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We’re just warming up. - Chuck Palahniuk

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building. - Steve Jobs

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. - Paracelsus

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. - Bertrand Russell

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life. - Tom Hodgkinson

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board - Mark Twain

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life? - Sandra Chami Kassis

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. - Peter Straub

If everyone practices the power of their love, there will be happiness and no war. - Debasish Mridha

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes

Trust your imagination, dreams, and hopes. Just never forget to take actions to justify your trust. - Debasish Mridha

It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy. - Barack Obama

Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are. - Jaeda DeWalt

We the caregivers, have the power to do things proactively to benefit our present and future generations. - Betsy L. Stone

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. - Lao Tzu

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening. - Epictetus

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. - W. Somerset Maugham

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. - Arthur C. Clarke

Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don't conform to our view of reality, we call them symbols. When they do, we call them facts. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. - John Stuart Mill

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary. - Janna Malamud Smith

It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances. - Daya Kudari

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Expectations paint illusions Experience paints a pictureOptical Illusions manufacture confused expectations and experiences. - Goitsemang Mvula

Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time, it is also about taking actions at right time. - Amit Kalantri

Man is the master of Woman" - this statement may have been a glorious fact of primitive life in the wild, but it is nothing but an obnoxious stain on psyche of the thinking humanity. - Abhijit Naskar

Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and defendants and judges and juries, week after week and year after year that develops lawyers into top trial attorneys. - Marian Deegan

If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart. - Don Roff

Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning. - Jennifer Weiner

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. - Albert Einstein

Some people behave as though they are having an allergic reaction to feelings. - Steve Maraboli

I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy, but owing to some imperative necessity of action. - Bertrand Russell

We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses. - H. V. Adolt

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. - William James

Every morning do not go to work, but go to actualize your desire filled dreams. - Debasish Mridha

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. - John Marshall

We come into this world crying and calling, wailing and singing; and for the first months of our life all our needs and instincts, our dissatisfactions and discoveries are immediately vocalized without apology and without censor. - Paul Newham

Words are the timeless beauties; they tell a thousand stories, deliver your purpose, speak the heart and build character. The play and interaction of words amuse me, hence the power of words is my love. - Sharlene Leong

To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179 - William Shakespeare

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character. - Michelle Richmond

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write. - Hugh Prather

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels. - Tony Samara

Revere the unity of all-that-iscarry out your daily activities with compassion;if you do not limit your compassion,you yourself will not be limited. - Lao Tzu

Where facts are few, experts are many. - Donald R. Gannon

DISSEMBLE, v.i. To put a clean shirt upon the character. Let us dissemble. Adam - Ambrose Bierce

A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need. - Nema Al-Araby

The fact that you can do something doesn't me you are called to do it - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Do try The House by fresh new author, , it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. - Susannah Mansfield

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence. - Ayn Rand

LIVING your life and NOT acting it is the true art. - Mykyta Isagulov

Sex is my practice. It's where I always strive to be my best self. I try to be as honest as possible, as present as possible, as centered as possible, as kind as possible, as generous as possible without being a doormat. - Nina Hartley

Do not only believe, affirm and act the sacred words of God. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything big, once started little. Most famous people started just where you are at now. Catapult yourself to success. Practice self-discipline. Work to develop excellent skills and abilities. Learn to be polite and diplomatic. Doing this, helps insure you grow big at what you want for success. - Mark F. LaMoure

You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others. - Debasish Mridha

Act with though awareness and love in the present moment then you will never need to worry about the thought of regret. - Matthew Donnelly

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both. - Orrin Woodward

It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me. - Mary Sage Nguyen

Enlightenment is recognizing that we are all connected, then consciously living that realization—our thoughts, words, and actions an unshakable reflection of that understanding. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others in order to save them, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save. - Brandon Varnell

Be careful of what we say or do on this earth as every word and every action has a return. - Aisha Mirza

Enthusiasm is the key but action opens the door. - Debasish Mridha

A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and work hard to create it. Transform your dreams into the reality, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for top success. - Mark F. LaMoure

The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day. - Amy Gatliff

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. - Albert Camus

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure. - Mordecai Richler

It's like a dream, but who cares? I want a dream. Right this minute, that's exactly what I want. Because reality has been pretty fucking crap for a while now. - S.K. Tremayne

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them - William Lawrence Bragg

In the end, history proved the Jews correct. Across time and place, memory lives on the tenacity of a people’s resolve never to forget—not just with words—but with an endless stream of concrete actions rushing every day, every hour, every minute, every second. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus. - Thomas M. Disch

Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. - Dr. Thomas Fuller

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. - Miguel de Cervantes

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction. - Lynn Johnston

Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss. - Vishwas Chavan

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer

Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder. - Alcurtis Turner

Listening; our propensity to complicate this effortless act is only matched by our ability to relentlessly obscure the obvious. - Glenn A. Maltais

The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost. - Shannon L. Alder

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty. - Stieg Larsson

I love to connecting with people to help others who's exactly like you. - Sivaprakash Sidhu

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. - Joss Whedon

Maybe if we focused on being light & less on the dark, we might actually see things change. - Michael M. Rose

Little girls who hang around with vampires need to get used to dead things...In fact, little girls who hang around with vampires already are with dead things. - Vivian Vande Velde

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.

By changing your perception, awareness, and actions you create yourself again and again. - Debasish Mridha

THE 52ND is a unique entry in the YA and Paranormal genres. With a diverse cast of characters, thrilling mythology, and a potential series ahead, Dela knocks it out of the park with THE 52ND. - Indie Reader

[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love. - G.K. Chesterton

The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled by the eyes and by the hand. But freedom has always been an elusive tease, and in the very act of grabbing for it one can become shackled. - Alice Walker

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science. - Philip Abelson

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. - John Schaar

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous. - Sara Sheridan

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. - W. Somerset Maugham

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure. - Richie Norton

There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience. - Eraldo Banovac

We spend so much of our life in activity…we almost feel uncomfortable just being – but that is huge restorative break in the wild swirl of activity around us – it’s like pulling back the bow in archery – like taking that big deep breath in before you dive into your day. - davidji

Let's not become too busy to keep in touch with those who really matter most and need us. Life's short but let's make an indelible purposeful and powerful impact with it - Bernard Kelvin Clive

You can’t walk till the end on an active railway line and you can’t walk till the end on the road of lies, because sooner or later you collide with the truth! - Mehmet Murat ildan

What a wonderful world it would be if christians practiced Christianity. - Brad Walsh

Let us all practice the power of love to win the peace. - Debasish Mridha

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. - Margaret Peterson Haddix

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders. - Andrew Harvey

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. - Mary Tyler Moore

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. - Brian Tracy

Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a swarm of noise blanketing the valuable data beneath. - Michael Harris

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. - Hannah More

Thinking must never be a substitute for action. - Marty Rubin

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by as his only lasting achievement. - Max Ernst

CHANGE: Don’t just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don’t just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don’t just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it. - - Steve Maraboli

​The purpose of a scientist is not to present blunt facts to the people. It is to present the facts in a manner that's most suitable and beneficial for the whole humanity. - Abhijit Naskar

my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ...they at least make my art more interesting - Hiroko Sakai

Each of us is the real star. We all are so close but still so far i this sky called ground. We all shine, though the light the others see is the one that our actions left in the past. - Christos K

A mind too active is no mind at all. - Theodore Roethke

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. - Jane Yolen

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them. - Ivan Illich

Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy. - Maulik Doshi

Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. - Dianne Hales

Reading is no substitute for action. - Colleen Wainwright

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. - Aristotle

This storm we are in concerns me greatly. Even in the midst of the storm I know the Son shines from behind the clouds and will eventually break through completely. There is hope. Let's impact this change together. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Be good to feel good and to attract good. - Debasish Mridha

The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world. - Debasish Mridha

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. - Krishnamurti

Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power.

Everyone says "i will never" and "one should never" but, actually, "No one can Resist Miss-using Power (at-least ones) when they have it". - honeya

Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story. - Karen Blixen

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world. - George Eliot

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce

I think I have a kind of Tourette's syndrome where if you're not supposed to say something, it becomes very attractive to do so. You're in a rock band – what can't you talk about? God? Okay, here we go. You're supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no I won't. - Bono

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them. - Mahatma Gandhi

To criticize one's country is to do it a service... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism--a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation. - J. William Fulbright (Senator)

You have to learn about life and love by actually living it. - Marty Rubin

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton

Be humble in your confidence yet courageous in your character. - Melanie Koulouris

Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it’s all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you’ll head for hell! - Mehmet Murat ildan

You can never know enough about your characters - W. Somerset Maugham

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction. - Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest. - Benjamin Franklin

A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community. - Kurt Vonnegut

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces? - Frédéric Bastiat

• you should improve your character, because it's belong to your destiny ♥ - Mana'hil

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. - Herbert Hoover

Things don't make me a person. Character does. - jhinang

It is not the Church name that matters, but a Christ like character from every Christian that makes a difference. - Gugu Mona

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. - Marge Piercy

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. - Hippocrates

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience. - Dalai Lama XIV

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be. - Patricia Hampl

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention. - Michael Bassey Johnson

About GreenHollyWood who is this character?? My English teacher a fat guy about 30 or 35 years old with Glasses and short Hair. - Deyth Banger

When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss. - Charles R. Swindoll

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior. - David Allen

If you are in a relationship and you care more about what people think or say rather than what you have, you don't deserve that relationship, in fact you don't deserve to be in any relationship at all. - Kambiz Shabankare

There comes a time when something changes you... No matter the impact... Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is a brandished armor you wear the rest of your life. - Solange nicole

If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get. - Christopher Babson

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Dont brag about being perfect..imperfections are what makes you attractive.. - Sandra Chami Kassis

We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again. - Alan Brennert

Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy. - Jane Bled

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia

I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green… - Munia Khan

The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose. ~ Eragon - Christopher Paolini

The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason. - Thiruman Archunan

Don't let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself. - Nikki Rowe

Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians. - Elizabeth Moon

The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace. - Jiulio Consiglio

Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851 - Benjamin Disraeli

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. - Michelle Obama

When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it. - Gary Hopkins

The slightest act of love holds greater spiritual power than a thousand rituals. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am. - Cleveland W. Gibson

But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a license for it to stick it’s nose into virtually every human activity. - John Stossel No They can t Pg 32 Threshold Editions New York New York 2012

It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events are devoid of meaning until someone assigns it to them. - Dean C. Barnlund

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius

What is attraction (akarshan) in this world? It is open fire and one should be aware of it. Attraction is the open fire. The root of illusory attachment (moha) is indeed attraction. - Dada Bhagwan

Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no answers to find? How do you assimilate that kind of loss without losing your mind? - Rob Thomas

Exercise is medicine. Literally. Just like a pill, it reliably changes brain function by altering the activity of key brain chemicals and hormones.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. - Og Mandino

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation. - Rudyard Kipling

The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke

The Annual Register for 1763 tabulated the casualty list for British sailors in the Seven Years' War with France. Out of 184,899 men raised or rounded up for the war, 133, 708 died from disease, primarily scurvy, while only 1,512 were killed in action. - Stephen R. Brown

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. - Shunryu Suzuki

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson