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It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act. — Paulo Freire

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region. — Margaret Atwood

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. — Diana Princess Of Wales

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration. — Deepak Chopra

In the presence of Jesus men are disturbed, and this disturbance is the precise act of fishing to which Jesus had called the four fishermen. — Anonymous

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. — Daniel Bernoulli

Your part in the co-creation process to attract more money in your life is to act on the ideas that are coming to you. — Joe Vitale

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. — Felix Adler

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. — Edmund Burke

To act is to anchor in the imminent future. — Emile M. Cioran

the best way to judge whether the controlling party will act fairly in the future is to see whether it has acted fairly in the past. — Hugh Young

If I am truly in Christ, mustn't my initial act, too, always be an act of thanksgiving, returning to Jesus with thanks on the lips? — Ann Voskamp

Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to. — Fougasse

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee. — Marcus Aurelius

Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient. — Gary Lineker

Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God's word. — James MacDonald

When people say love is blind, they act like that's a good thing. But some people find their way around in the darkness a little better than others. — David Levithan

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing. — John Cage

When some people in the crowd act shocked or repulsed, Diamond calmly tells them her scars are part of her past, part of what made her who she is. — Cheryl Rainfield

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life. — Wayne White

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels. — Mortimer Adler

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ. — Billy Graham

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses. — Mao Zedong

sacralized, violence made sacred in the very act of being expelled; or still, human violence transformed from bad and destructive — Cesareo Bandera

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience. — Juice Newton

This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe. — Celia Thaxter

History becomes fiction in the ... act of being written down — Jack Kerouac

Yes, it is as you say. You now behold a detective- a great detective, I may say- in the act of detecting! — Agatha Christie

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake. — Anne Carson

She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature — Mario Puzo

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. — Frank Auerbach

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. — Roger Wicker

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there — Anton Chekhov

To act choicelessly is to act in accord with the situation. If someone throws a rock, you duck. — Rami M. Shapiro

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is the crow of the cock that announced the break of the day
Meaning: It is good to act in time ... ik — Ikechukwu Joseph

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear ... — Peter McWilliams

What a rebellious act it is to love yourself naturally in a world of fake appearances. — Nikki Rowe

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play. — Ian McKellen

In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out. — Eli Wallach

Put your seed in the soil, no matter the dormancy period, with faith, there shall surely be germination — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Homosexuals would be the best husbands in the world if they did not put on an act of loving other women. — Marcel Proust

Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word. — Monica Johnson

I thought people in small towns were supposed to be nice, not act like the son of Satan. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination. — Dennis Potter

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolucionary act. — George Orwell

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. — J. Edgar Hoover

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger. — Nhat Hanh

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small. — Felix Dennis

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small. — Jim Harrison

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men? ... Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. — David Henry Hwang

I don't have much racial stuff in my act. And no one's ever really threatened me to my face. Threats on the internet don't bother me so much. — Anthony Jeselnik

This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it ... in an evil way. — James A. Michener

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living. — Brendan Coyle

It is only given to women to see without being seen - men must act in the open, or not at all. — G. Willow Wilson

The greatest act of courage is not falling in love But, despite everything, falling in love again. — Robin Wayne Bailey

I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future. — Michael Douglas

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. — Veronica Roth

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing. — Tinsel Korey

All that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.; — Tony Parsons

I almost always urge people to write in the first person ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser

A woman's duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes ... to speak and act in defiance of convention. — Margaret Sanger

Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play. — Frederick Lenz

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise. — Alfred North Whitehead

You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age. — Josh Schwartz

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place. — Julian Baggini

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image. — Brian Tracy

Be inspired, raising the bar of excellence in your life every day. Act better than before; grow higher than usual; think faster than normal. — Israelmore Ayivor

Love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny. — Diane Ackerman

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place. — William Ralph Inge

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart. — Diana Ross

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart. — Robert Herrick

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace. — Roberto Clemente

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists
believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic. — Woodrow Wilson

Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul. — Kilroy J. Oldster

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do. — Richard Steele

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future. — Immortal Technique

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man. — Charles Spurgeon

His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk. — Jules Verne

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. — Michael Leunig

You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn. — Gail Sheehy

If you vote against act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president. — Marco Rubio

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself ... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. — Jeff Melvoin

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

When we're in the act of wandering, we need to be present, not watching though a lens. — Jennifer Niven

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity. — Edmond De Goncourt

Sometimes it was like a deep ache, the simple act of breathing in and out. — Jess Walter

I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth ... in mine it begins to be loosened. — Walt Whitman

When a man and a woman give themselves to each other in an act of marital love, they can know the love of Christ as no one else can know it. — J. Vernon McGee

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do. — Joseph Kosinski

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural. — William Shakespeare

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world. — Raphael Lemkin

Whats the point in being grown up when you cant act childish sometimes? — Natalie Repinski

When in doubt, always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are. — Aldous Huxley

Whenever you receive a vision, quickly act on the vision. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and ... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man. — Martin Luther King Jr.