Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John RuskinOur faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLove begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
Mother TeresaIs pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander PopeOur existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
Anthony HopkinsAll these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.
Albert EinsteinBut do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
Barack ObamaHow great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya AngelouOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund BurkeAll things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest HemingwayI grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.
Clint EastwoodHatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhat a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard ShawConcupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Blaise PascalI don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
Jane GoodallYou must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
Richard M. NixonThe Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
Steven WrightCuriosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven WrightMay you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel KantThe opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
VoltaireUnlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George WashingtonThe human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
Nikola TeslaActions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel JohnsonMystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
Neil ArmstrongI’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.
Clint EastwoodMany admire, few know.
HippocratesReally showing love requires more than just words.
Joyce MeyerWhatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich NietzscheI think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
George W. BushBehold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander PopeMan wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert CamusBeauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor DostoevskyAnd when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George EliotEither he’s dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho MarxCruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George EliotSaints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George OrwellThe moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma GandhiGod never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.
Billy GrahamMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
VoltaireWhen I was five – it’s not even bad – I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.
Lando NorrisAn honest man is always a child.
SocratesDesire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise PascalWhoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques RousseauNothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard ShawA good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
Herbert HooverI believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.
Jim MattisThe only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
George Bernard ShawActions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S. TrumanGreat ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon BonaparteStill round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TolkienA man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
Maya AngelouI’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
Angelina JolieYou are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin LutherEverybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.
Clint EastwoodAs far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.
Clint EastwoodNot always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander Pope