Act Quotes
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I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself.
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To know and not to act is not to know.
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It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.
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Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a boss.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.
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The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life’s major satisfactions. And relaxing afterwards is one of life’s most luxurious rewards.
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The judicial discretion has been fettered greatly by the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
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Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.
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I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.
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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.
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This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
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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.
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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
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As we awaken individually, we will act more powerfully collectively.
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God is not an act of our imagination. We are an act of God's imagination.
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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.
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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.
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Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.
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When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
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To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.
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Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists?
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Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.
