Famous quotes containing the word actions:
“History by apprising them [students] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind
Of joy my actions turn on, like a thread
Carrying beads?”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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