Act Quotes
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We're not trying to say that Patience Cooks is a horrible human being, but that act she committed on March 26, 2005, was horrible. Justice has to be blind. ... Human life has to mean more than that.
Brian Baker Bad Religion -
Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.
Eliphas Levi
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As we awaken individually, we will act more powerfully collectively.
Marianne Williamson -
Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
Immanuel Kant -
America’s progressive rulers, like France’s, act less as politicians gathering support than as conquerors who enjoy punishing captives without worry that the tables may turn.
Angelo Codevilla -
Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.
Colin Farrell -
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
Joshua A. Norton
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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Aristotle -
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.
Adam C. Engst -
“I’ve learned that history is the autobiography of the historian, that ignoring the past is the act of a fool, and that loyalty does not mean falling into line, but stepping out of it for the people you love.”
Annie Barrows -
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
Gail Godwin -
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
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Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.
Alice Merton -
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.
Anthony F. C. Wallace -
When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
Steven Strogatz -
I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.
Brigitte Michael Sumner -
The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
Alan Autry -
I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.
Lao Tzu -
My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.
Judah Friedlander -
The only choreography I have in my act is where I walk about ten feet, from stage right to stage left. Then I say, "You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
Allan Sherman