Actto Book Quotes & Sayings

There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the Executive Branch, that are their views. And that's the way we live. We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country. — Donald Rumsfeld

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water. — Augusten Burroughs

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Most people who perpetrate evil do not see what they are doing as evil. Evil exists primarily in the eye of the beholder, especially in the eye of the victim. — Roy F. Baumeister

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property. — Aristotle.

The moment of grace comes to us in the dynamics of any situation we walk into. It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine situation. It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful, something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world better off for our having been there. We catch it if we are people of discernment. — Lewis B. Smedes

Understanding is important for studying,
knowledge is important for teaching,
and wisdom is important for living. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come. — Luke Bracey

All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour. — P. J. O'Rourke

How can I hate his anger," he says, "when I know so well where it comes from? — Tahereh Mafi

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink. — Sarah Schulman

Tell people what specific action to take. — Jay Abraham

At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis. — Richard Bentall