Act Quotes
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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.
Ben Bernanke
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In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.
Nobuyoshi Araki
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So act that anything you do may become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
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I am committed to furthering the self-determination of Indian communities but without terminating the special relationship between the Federal Government and the Indian people. I am strongly opposed to termination. Self-determination means that you can decide the nature of your tribe's relationship with the Federal Government within the framework of the Self-Determination Act, which I signed in January of 1975.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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Experience is only half of experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
Honore de Balzac
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But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.
Steve Jobs
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Happily ever after never happens in the second act.
Boyd K. Packer
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Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!
Abiola Abrams
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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.
Steve Garvey
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He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.
William Blake
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
George Bernard Shaw
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I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.
Ainsley Earhardt
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I try to act out of faith.
Marian Wright Edelman
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You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.
Emma Bunton Spice Girls
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
Corrie Ten Boom
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When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches." You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, "well, he's drinking again."
Bill Murray
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The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
George Bernard Shaw
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That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.
Anton Myrer
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Sigmund Freud
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Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.
Antoni Tapies