Act Quotes
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They lack the ultimate audacity.” Caldwell nodded, frowning. “They possess a certain inventiveness, they plan superbly, they execute with ferocity and care. But then there comes that moment.” He glanced at his son-in-law with a quick, fond smile. “That terribly lonely moment when you must make a further decision—a huge one. One that has nothing to do with everything you’ve anticipated. With the whole future in doubt, with hopelessly inadequate information and exhausted from the strain of the battles already fought, you have to summon up all your energies and decide, quickly and clearly; and act.” He took his pipe from his mouth. “That’s where they break down.
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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.
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Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
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The act of observing a quantum event probabalistically influences its outcome.
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If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.
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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.
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The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
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If you think confident, you act confident.
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I live or die by how well I act.
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To act justly means to do what is right when it is inexpedient to do so.
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I was always pretty good at adapting to my situations. My act was never that inside, where it was like, "Okay, they're either going to get this or they're not."
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“I think it was the size of the dream and the willingness to act on it. Ravana dreamt big and strove ruthlessly to achieve it.”
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People act the way they do because they have learned to act that way.
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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
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Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
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I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest.
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In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
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In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
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I try to act out of faith.
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I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.
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It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.
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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.
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It's very important to understand how to act in any situation.
