#prompts

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#after #already #believes #committed #heart

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ↗

— Andre Gide

#beautiful things #madness #most #most beautiful #prompts

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#acts #brand #distant #hope #opiate

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ↗

— Mark Stevens

#best #paintings #prompts #random #reflection

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #desire #end #enterprise #every

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#concern #demands #giving #impersonal #little

When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#flawed #invisible #negative #our #perfect

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#advertise #affiliations #anxiety #automobiles #college

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#emergencies #ever #fall #guilty #hand