Act Quotes
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It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.
Stephen Root
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A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
Alan Autry
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For humans, the challenge is to unite soul and role, to discover the hidden wholeness that enables us to be in the world who we are in our souls, and to act in accordance with our deepest and truest natures.
Andrew Himes
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A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.
Joseph McCabe
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During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
Gail Godwin
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One cannot be held forever to a less-than-honorable act, after a life of great integrity, just because of one moment of weakness.
Andrea Camilleri
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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.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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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.
Michael Faraday
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
Etty Hillesum
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The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.
Marianne Williamson
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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
William Blake
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Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.
Adam C. Engst
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It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.
Cedric Richmond
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This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
George W. Bush
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All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.
Sasha Lane
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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.
Anthony F. C. Wallace
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Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
Abraham Low
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It isn’t God’s job to make sick people healthy. That’s the doctors’ job. God’s job is to make sick people brave, and in my experience, that’s something God does really well. Prayer, as I understand it, is not a matter of begging or bargaining. It is the act of inviting God into our lives so that, with God’s help, we will be strong enough to resist temptation and resilient enough not to be destroyed by life’s unfairness.
Harold Kushner
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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
Steven Strogatz
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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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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
Immanuel Kant