Act Quotes
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I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.
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this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.
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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.
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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.
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The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.
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The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.
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When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
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A lot of times people say, ‘You act like a grandmother, you’re just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.
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One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.
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He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
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To know and not to act is not to know.
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National liberation is necessarily an act of culture.
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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.
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Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
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Article 11 of the NPT states that if we are threatened, we can act in secret.
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Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
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Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.
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Under the No Child Left Behind Act, schools can be penalized because of those tests. We could be considered as failures and sanctioned.
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There are two possible mistakes: One is to go on too long, and one is not to go on long enough. And, it's a very difficult balancing act.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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So act that anything you do may become universal law.
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In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.
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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.
