Act Quotes
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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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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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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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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.
William Bateson
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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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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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Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.
Nicholas Sparks
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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
Immanuel Kant
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I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.
Lao Tzu
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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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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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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
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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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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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But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.
Blaise Pascal
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The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.
Marianne Williamson
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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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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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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
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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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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