Quotes of: Simple-act Keyword

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

Doubt

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

David Copperfield

For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the embodiment of all my hatred, could act like a suture.

Darkness Before Dawn

If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Dad, she's just going to freak. And probably come here and get me, and then you guys will start yelling at each other, and I'll have to act out by wearing lots of eyeliner and doing the drugs

Demonglass

If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

Divergent

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this,

The Dragon's Path/Leviathan Wakes

Inertia. Guy’s law of enchantment: “People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them.

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these are not made it ceases to exist.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

Evernight

..through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

Exhalation

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

The Forgotten Garden

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

Floating in My Mother's Palm

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Flaubert's Parrot

Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe

Floating in My Mother's Palm