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A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.


Barbara Deming

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A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
BARBARA DEMING As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
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AMIT RAY Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great.
NELSON RIOS All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot...
NANCY GIBBS Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH Within Eros, there is (the) promise; within Love there is (the) Truth.
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MELISSA ALBERT Pieces of me, I'm giving to you. In the words that I say and the things that I do.
SHELLI THOMPSON In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answer...
LEWIS N. ROE If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The fewer the words, the better you’re heard!
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE That’s not fair!

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JOHN M SHEEHAN The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
BO BENNETT All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small ...
ROY PETER CLARK Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed...
JOHN MILTON Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil ...
MARSHA BLACKBURN It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-ston...
JODI PICOULT The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
FRANK HERBERT Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre...
BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many a...
MARK YOST Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE In other words, the barbaric acts carried out in this building were probably almost a matter of rout...
GEOFF HOON The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name...
STUART NADLER All our words and acts are passing in review before God.
ELLEN G. WHITE Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act; When they sow that act, they will reap a habit...
PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ...
GARY F EVANS... Pain by itself made from words which have gone to action, by itself is unsolveable problem.
DEYTH BANGER I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
MARKUS ZUSAK If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.
ORSON SCOTT CARD When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?
NICOLE KRAUSS The beauty in words is realized only by actions as fragrance is already there in flowers, but it is ...
ANUJ SOMANY Words are the greatest gift to mankind by God to express emotions.
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Holy words, blessings of guru, visiting religious empire daily will not help you if you do not act u...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Do the things you want to do; if you don’t, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If I disagree with you sometimes, it's because I have a mind of my own.
EMMA PAUL Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want...
RYū MURAKAMI Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
JENNIFER DONNELLY What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING If a person truly considers own opponent a termite ,then both will be never seen sharing the same pl...
ANUJ SOMANY Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, ...
TOM STOPPARD Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can also hurt me.
Stones and sticks break only...
RUBY REDFORT Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.  Little audible links, they are, chaining t...
THEODORE DREISER Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
CONFUCIUS The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those tha...
WILLIAM LAW No one is too poor to give a smile -
a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of mon...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA I still remember the moment when my gaze fell upon the mutilated face of a young woman, her features...
HAN KANG Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will co...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Don't listen the words, hear the reason of the words.
TAMAS LAKOMETZ Every living word that gives life was once without form.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON YOU may not be Responsible for being Down,, but YOU are Responsible for getting YOUR butt UP...
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulnes...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hol...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us w...
L'CHIAM Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library ...
ROBERT CORMIER Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious o...
HENRY HAZLITT Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly
SOTONYE ANGA I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Choose your words before talking
SOTONYE ANGA When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...
ECKHART TOLLE Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between differ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-gu...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I...
EMILY DICKINSON When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm d...
JOHN LENNON There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind th...
DIANE SETTERFIELD While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece.
WILLIE HAYNES The words spoken from a selfless soul are the sole flawless powers to empower the world.
ANUJ SOMANY The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA The condition of job-seekers is like that of beggars who can't be choosers, so don't buy the empty w...
ANUJ SOMANY If you don´t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN What must I say, that you don’t know on your own?
NIKHIL SHRIVASTAVA Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble ...
JOHN HALL Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE Random acts of kindness are great!! Although, I do often just prefer random, senseless, and hilariou...
JOEY TALLADINO A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, h...
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Ju...
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BARBARA DEMING They did a really good job.
BRIAN DEMING We were short some girls. If we had them, it might have been very close.
BRIAN DEMING They really did an impressive job.
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ADAM DEMING We expect to get back to 125,000 barrels per day quickly.
CLAIBORNE DEMING Just put two people in a car instead of one.
CLAIBORNE DEMING The faster the fervor goes up, the faster prices go up. But they will go down sooner or later, proba...
CLAIBORNE DEMING The heat signal from this planet is so strong that Spitzer was able to resolve its disk, in the sens...
DRAKE DEMING Our direct measurement confirms this estimate.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. EDWARDS DEMING It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. EDWARDS DEMING We are here to make another world.
W. EDWARDS DEMING People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if th...
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W. EDWARDS DEMING Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMING Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is everyone's responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMING The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replac...
W. EDWARDS DEMING Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING There must be consistency in direction.
W. EDWARDS DEMING You can not define being exactly on time.
W. EDWARDS DEMING It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
W. EDWARDS DEMING If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING We must understand variation.
W. EDWARDS DEMING Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
W. EDWARDS DEMING Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING Lack of knowledge . . . that is the problem.
W. EDWARDS DEMING If you stay in this world, you will never learn another one.
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W. EDWRDS DEMING Our customers should take joy in our products and services.
W. EDWARDS DEMING We want best efforts guided by theory.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING We do not know what quality is.
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W. EDWARDS DEMING Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER