Actions

Examples

• The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The action of others is always influenced by deciding what stimuli shall call out their actions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A commanding general cannot base his actions upon either absolute certainty or absolute ignorance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And soon his actions made a most extraordinary reply. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It _is_ wonderful, replied Wickham, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride; and pride had often been his best friend. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He said so repeatedly; other things he said too, which marked the turn of his feelings and gave the lie to his actions. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• His resolutions and actions affect a greater number of his fellow-creatures. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The really executive man is a man who ponders his ends, who makes his ideas of the results of his actions as clear and full as possible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The material of thinking is not thoughts, but actions, facts, events, and the relations of things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Most people have motives of some sort for their actions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To this I reply, that in judging of the actions of men we must proceed upon the same maxims, as when we reason concerning external objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Our actions are more voluntary than our judgments; but we have not more liberty in the one than in the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• His honour might see him if he liked, who could tell him anything he wanted to know about--about the --th's actions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Men are not blamed for such evil actions as they perform ignorantly and casually, whatever may be their consequences. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Things remote in space and time affect the issue of our actions quite as much as things which we can smell and handle. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And while he is deserving of gratitude for his actions in the early part of the movement and up until the most recent time-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Human actions are modified in a like fashion. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And in such noting of the meaning of the actions of others and of his own state, he is socially directed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We know that all human actions are imperfect; but we do not therefore attribute them to the worse rather than to the better motive or principle. Plato. The Republic.
• An eloquent catalogue appeared in a weekly print, describing his virtues, his magnificence, his talents, and his good actions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The former are the foundation of all our thoughts and actions, so that upon their removal human nature must immediately perish and go to ruin. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• While the earth lasts, his actions will be recorded with praise. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I think we must not set down people's bad actions to their religion, said falcon-faced Mrs. Plymdale, who had been listening hitherto. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• As none of our actions can alter the past, it is not strange it should never determine the will. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Nor is every sentiment of pleasure or pain, which arises from characters and actions, of that peculiar kind, which makes us praise or condemn. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Men are less blamed for such evil actions, as they perform hastily and unpremeditately, than for such as proceed from thought and deliberation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• So far I could follow their actions as if I had actually seen them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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