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No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules. — Jacques Chirac

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. — Dalton Trumbo

I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically. — Stephen Sondheim

A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it. — Ashly Lorenzana

One-act [plays] are not strikingly remunerative, but, on the other hand, the veriest dullard could not spend more than a week in writing one. — Arnold Bennett

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive
it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual. — W. H. Auden

The fact is, one shouldn't go to parties when one is in love. It makes one act aloof and superior and everyone distrusts you. — Rosamond Lehmann

If God did not act first, no one would be saved. — R.C. Sproul

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting. — Maggie Smith

He stopped the horse abruptly, turning to look at me. One act of kindness cannot repay all the sins I have committed. — H.A. Lamb

One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act. — Angie Everhart

Being mad at someone for acting exactly the way you assume they'll act is no one's fault but your own. — Sarah Addison Allen

You see the world as fixed and finite, and it is not. It is liquid and ever moving, and one act can change everything. — A.C. Gaughen

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. — Sidney Blumenthal

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one. — Ally Carter

A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction. — Erwin McManus

One act of violence takes four generations to heal. — Gloria Steinem

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt. — Kenneth L. Pike

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself. — Maria Montessori

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. — Manuel Puig

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one. — Marsha M. Linehan

Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody o live in it. — Arthur Miller

Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives. — Anthony D. Williams

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection. — Irving Babbitt

[ ... ]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken. — H.J. Brues

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it. — Betty Williams

The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough ... No, I do not support the Dream Act. — Michael Baumgartner

I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love. — Marina And The Diamonds

Was it not an act of love to impersonate the loved one? — Anais Nin

If an act of evil is to stain my soul, it will be for one of my own. — A. Zavarelli

Faith is not a one-time act. It's a way of life. — Jim George

To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

One good act of vengeance deserves another. — Jon Jefferson

Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things. — Hozier

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history. — Mark McGwire

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. — Cory Doctorow

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else. — Edie Falco

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting. — Eva Mendes

The act of unconditional love makes one forget all the problems of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn Vos Savant

To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion. — Lou Ferrigno

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one. — Caroline Myss

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me. — Marilyn Monroe

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going. — Gustave Flaubert

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing. — Terry Jones

To have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Urging others to read F. Scott Fitzgerald, if not a reactionary act, was not something one could do in 1968. — Haruki Murakami

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one. — Ann Leckie

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III) — Oscar Wilde

Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening. — Terry Tempest Williams

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again. — Randa Abdel-Fattah

Be courageous requires not only, on the one hand, a watchful mind; it requires, on the other hand, also, the indispensable strong will to act. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble. — Etty Hillesum

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act ... a doing rather than a being. — Judith Butler

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. — Benjamin Disraeli

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment. — Peter Camejo

With each act,he traveled toward the center of that world,until one day,when he looked back,he found he could no longer see the way he'd come. — C.J. Roberts

If you're going to kill yourself just do me one favor: say it was because of my act. Can you do that? I need the press. — Doug Stanhope

The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these things accurately. — Jennifer Granholm

I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal — Severn Cullis-Suzuki

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded — Jodi Picoult

It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one. — Laura Dern

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ... — Hannah More

Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another. — Deena Metzger

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels. — Thomas Watson

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt. — Plato

Sometimes one act of bravery is better than a life lived as a coward.
-Mukta — Amita Trasi

One should act not with worry but with faith;
One should act willingly and selflessly,
Let life be, the way it is. — Gian Kumar

Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one — Brian Tracy

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk. — Mary Renault

Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives. — Sallie Tisdale

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression. — Kirstie Alley

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie

Act as if you were separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal your world tomorrow. — Neale Donald Walsch

One must act in painting as in life, directly. — Pablo Picasso

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one. — Paulo Coelho

One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act. — Ben Carson

In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one. — Tom Watson

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism. — Frank Herbert

At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later. — Edmund White

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it. — Alejandro Zambra

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. — Nicolas Chamfort

A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care. — James A. Forbes

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. — Queen Victoria

Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one. — Bob Proctor

There are two things that can stop us from committing an evil act; love and fear- religion always chooses the latter one. — M.F. Moonzajer

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity ... — Sakyong Mipham

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm. — Rosamond Lehmann

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it. — Peter David

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt. — Mahatma Gandhi

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.' — Mike Love

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known. — Boris Beizer

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. — Natalie Goldberg

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them. — John Burnham Schwartz

Isis, I am not one to act out with such posture. Please accept my sincere apology, as I have nothing else to offer. — Nely Cab

I suppose everyone has had that ghastly feeling at one time or another of being urged by some overwhelming force to do some absolutely blithering act. — P.G. Wodehouse

(this is before we're living together, before we do the most faithful act of all, mix our separate books into one library) — Ali Smith

You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131 — Irving Stone

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices. — Erich Fromm