“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”

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Dorothy Day55

Social activist 1897–1980

James Richardson (1950) American poet

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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

“In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“I believe honestly that I can talk. I believe that I have the ability to reason, I have logic, I have compassion, I have understanding. If we talk there's no problem you know what I'm saying. But that's not what happened. People used what they heard in media and that's how they come at me, and then you know we got a clash.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

“Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“…because academics everywhere are forever attacking one another, and I had long since learned that one must never believe what a teacher says of another.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 5

“I know of no 'new programme'... Only that art is forever manifesting itself in new forms, since there are forever new personalities – its essence can never alter, I believe. Perhaps I am wrong. But speaking for myself, I know that I have no programme, only the unaccountable longing to grasp what I see and feel, and to find the purest means of expressing for it.”

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976) German artist

In the periodical 'Kunst und Künstler', 1914; as quoted in Expressionism', de:Wolf-Dieter Dube; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 20

“I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

Variant: We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
Source: A Spy in the House of Love

“What’s the best part of being in Hermes cabin?
Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to.
Travis: Or prank.
Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

“Let your beauty manifest itself
without talking and calculation.
You are silent. It says for you: I am.
And comes in meaning thousandfold,
comes at long last over everyone.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

“Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. it's actions, not words, that matter.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue

Variant: You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Source: The Rescue

“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”

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