A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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.
It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.
The sage acts by doing nothing.
If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more advanced—and a racist believes that an inherent difference between each race make his or her ethnicity superior. All of these ideologies spawn the hate, philosophical disagreements, and prejudices that have been the catalysts for various atrocious acts throughout history.
Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.
There can be no doubt that these attacks are deliberate acts of terrorism, carefully planned and coordinated and as such I condemn them utterly. Terrorism must be fought resolutely wherever it appears.
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.
I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I stand: I can do no other. " It is basically an affirmation of my ultimate responsibility to obey my conscience in my acts as a public official.
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.
If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do. " "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.
Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.
Trump often acts in delusional ways. I think he is a man who has always made his own rules and gotten away with it. Enough money will do that for you. However, he has also gotten away with it because he has operated in limited contexts - mostly in the realm of business.
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.