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Tis human actions paint the chart of time. -- James Montgomery
Always, in every human action, there are leaders. -- Vicente Fox
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. -- W. H. Auden
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. -- Nhat Hanh
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. -- John Locke
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. -- Horst Koehler
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity. -- Martin Rees
'Tis human actions paint the chart of time. -- James Montgomery
All human actions are an attempt to meet needs. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm. -- Babatunde Olatunji
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action... -- Cory Doctorow
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. -- Paul J. Meyer
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. -- William Graham Sumner
Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation. -- Dalai Lama
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. -- Henry Ward Beecher
God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. -- Michelene Wandor
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence. -- Jeremy Siegel
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. -- Horst Koehler
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire -- Aristotle
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. -- Baruch Spinoza
Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action. -- Hugh Elliot
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. -- Baruch Spinoza
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. -- Paul Kingsnorth
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action. -- Jerome Ravetz
... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease. -- Tennessee Celeste Claflin
Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening. -- George Saunders
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive. -- Dalai Lama
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness. -- Alfred Billings Street
While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires. -- Steve Maraboli
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all. -- Julian Baggini
There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action. -- Hans F. Sennholz
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'. -- Paul J. Meyer
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities. -- Hans Jonas
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at. -- Ludwig von Mises
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion -- Henry George
Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility. -- Kent Nerburn
History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern. -- C. V. Wedgwood
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas. -- Ludwig von Mises
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. -- Vaclav Havel
Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing. -- George W. Bush
It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of consequence is, and what level (or levels) of human action we think the principle should be applied. -- Dale Jamieson
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends. -- Ludwig von Mises
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action. -- Russell Kirk
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along. -- Thomas Sowell
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. -- Adam Ferguson
Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about by human action or by brute nature, what we think of the value of human life compared to that of other living things. -- Dale Jamieson
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action. -- Ludwig von Mises
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it. -- Louis Pasteur
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. -- Terry Eagleton
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. -- Elihu Root
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions. -- Zadie Smith
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. -- Adam Johnson
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. -- Mark Twain
Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it. -- Quentin Bryce
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test. -- John Ruskin
Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation. -- James H. Cone
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. -- Winston Churchill
The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life. -- Tony Dungy
Every human must take responsibility for his actions. -- Jalal Talabani
There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action. -- Chiang Kai-shek
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. -- Albert Einstein
We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are. -- Jeff Daniels
Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions. -- Vinoba Bhave
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. -- David Suzuki
Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life. -- Hans Jonas
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops. -- Corliss Lamont
I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that. -- Action Bronson
Human action is purposeful behavior. -- Ludwig von Mises
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion. -- Clarence Darrow
All human happiness and misery take the form of action. -- Aristotle
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. -- Swami Vivekananda
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence. -- David Hume
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed -- Abraham Lincoln
Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life. -- Ray Metcalfe
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations. -- Walter Hill
The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. -- Lowell Milken
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place. -- Paulo Coelho
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe. -- Pentti Linkola
"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action." -- Leo Buscaglia
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life. -- Karl Barth
The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action -- Cindy Gallop
The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action. -- R. C. Sproul
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. -- Aristotle
So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. -- Camille Paglia
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. -- Noam Chomsky
I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control. -- Abraham Lincoln
V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human. -- Jonathan Maberry
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action. -- Marshall McLuhan
Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer. -- Eckhart Tolle
Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful. -- Winston Churchill
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. -- Lewis Mumford
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. -- Ayn Rand
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process. -- Daisaku Ikeda
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide. -- Ambrose Bierce
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. -- Jacob Bronowski
Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy. -- William Alcott
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. -- Thornton Wilder
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. -- Charlotte Bronte
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water. -- Sandra E. Lamb
I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. -- Charlotte Bronte
I do not support individual countries taking military action against another country because of its human rights record, or subsequently justifying taking such action on human rights grounds. -- Mary Robinson
Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it. -- Nir Eyal
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne. -- Alice Childress

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