acts Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about acts.
“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”
- Ernest Dimnet
“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
- William Wordsworth
“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
- William Wordsworth
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
- Robert Kennedy
“I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.”
- Joichi Ito
“I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.”
- Diablo Cody
“More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.”
- Eric Alterman
“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.”
- Joseph Addison
“I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.”
- Julianna Baggott