#actions

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actions #deciding #determines #fate #first

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#dead #fear #men #only #reactions

I 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. Bush

#achieve #actions #certain #created #discipline

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

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But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication. ↗

— Tony Conrad

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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#hidden #indifferent #man #nature #reasons

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#described #easily #impulses #man #primary

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#attractions #ceases #dangerous #want #you

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#down #forcing #media #people #popular

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#courage #fears #influenced #never #your