Famous quotes containing the word actions:
“Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking for perfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“As soon as we exceed average human goodness by even a single step, our actions arouse suspicion. Virtue stands steadily in the middle.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“The course of my long life hath reached at last
In fragile bark oer a tempestuous sea
The common harbor, where must rendered be
Account for all the actions of the past.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882)
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