Alexander McCall Smith (1948) British writer
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, chapter 48.
The 44 Scotland Street series
"A Kind Word", in DNRC Newsletter #9 (December 1995) http://web.archive.org/web/19970412134441/www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/newsletter/html/newsletter09.html
Alexander McCall Smith (1948) British writer
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, chapter 48.
The 44 Scotland Street series
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop book The Lion and the Mouse
The Lion and the Mouse.
Variant: No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
“Act impeccably! Perform every act as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered.”
Michael Korda (1933) British writer
Power : How To Get It, How To Use It (1976)
“Great acts I reach to, to small things I bow.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
L'alte non temo, e l'umili non sdegno. <br class="br">Canto II, stanza 46 (tr. Fairfax) <br class="br"> Variant translation https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofquot00harbuoft#page/331/mode/1up: The proud I fear not, nor the meek disdain. <br class="br">Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“I just fell into the acting thing as kind of an accident.”
Mark Wahlberg (1971) American actor, television producer and rap musician
Chris Heath, The making of Mark, The Observer, Sunday 27 February 2000 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/feb/27/1
“Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse,
And every conqueror creates a muse.”
Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
Panegyric to My Lord Protector (or Panegyric on Cromwell).
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)