Act Quotes
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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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Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.
Adam C. Engst
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The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.
Marianne Williamson
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I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.
Ethan Suplee
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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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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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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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During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
Gail Godwin
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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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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
Steven Strogatz
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Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.
Nicholas Sparks
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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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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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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
William Blake
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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
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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
Immanuel Kant
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
Etty Hillesum
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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.
Brigitte Michael Sumner
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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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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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In 1666, an Act designed to promote the wool industry came into force, insisting that everyone should be buried in a woollen shroud. Other fibres, such as silk or linen, were banned.
Catharine Arnold
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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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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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