People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.
I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.
Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up in the ocean. Basically, the Hawaiian Islands act as a filter out in the middle of the Pacific.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.
I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
