Citations:actions


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * This faith maketh not Christ a justifier of thy person, but of thy actions; and of thy person for thy actions' sake, which is false.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The busy stage of life, the virtues of heroes, and the actions of men were his theme; and his hope and his dream was to become one among those whose names are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species.
 * I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions.
 * They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick; though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one passion; nevertheless it may have been that he was by nature and long habituation far too wedded to a fiery whaleman's ways, altogether to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage.
 * But if these suspicions were really his, he sagaciously refrained from verbally expressing them, however his actions might seem to hint them.