#act

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#actually #back #control #decisions #few

In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#faith #philosophy #religion #sacred #verb

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research. ↗

— Steve Israel

#cell #cell research #cells #eligible #embryonic

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. ↗

— William James

#chosen #equally #ethical #out #possible

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. ↗

— William James

#fact #gain #happiness #how #in fact

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. ↗

— William James

#age #character #like #most #never

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ↗

— William James

#advantage #better #character #concrete #entirely

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. ↗

— William James

#devout #esteem #facts #itself #neutralized

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#creating #dress #great #i #inspiring

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#art #bigger #contemporary #contemporary art #how