Quotes of: Simple-act Keyword

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

A Lion Among Men

We all act crazy when we fall in love, stupid when we miss them, and insane when we lose them.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

She deliberated too much afore making decisions; he acted on instinct. He liked Oreos, she preferred pasta worms.

The Last Viking

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

The Lowland

Through the act of getting married, one has taken on the task of mutual confrontation until death.

Marriage: Dead or Alive

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh

Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below.

Skirting the Gorge — A Novel

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

Sebastian O

Selfishness is a bad habit. That’s why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption.

Sleeping Partners

It's the story of the City of Women; of how it came to be, how it flourished, and how it was destroyed by a reckless and irrevocable act of mercy.

The Steel Seraglio

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

The Twelve Gifts of Birth

Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

The Tenth Circle

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

Tales from Earthsea

I knew it, but I knew you didn’t know I knew it, so I knew to not let you know I knew it by acting like I didn’t know it.

This Book Title is Invisible

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

Othello

Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.

Other People's Weddings

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Politics

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life