The Act Quotes & Sayings
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My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in. —
Colin Quinn

In
the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning. —
Malcolm Gladwell

I know writers for whom
the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight. —
Denise Duhamel

Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself. —
Jaleigh Johnson

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

With more than thirty thousand suicides a year,
the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. —
Craig Johnson

Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it is a way of showing your appreciation and love to the loved body through her senses. —
Baris Gencel

Don't say it do it, Don't act it out prove it, Don't just speak it make me believe it. —
The Prolific Penman

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. —
Thomas Paine

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others. —
Bruce Weinstein

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. —
Richard J. Foster

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves. —
Sergei Lukyanenko

You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn't want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act ... —
Ayn Rand

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

You have to be careful what you imagine, because
the act of imagining is
the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person. —
Margaret Drabble

The worse feeling is when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you hanging, and you have to act like you don't care at all. —
Drake

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

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) —
William Shakespeare

Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy. —
Stewart Stafford

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

The Lord is perfect and patient. He knows exact when to act. —
Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

It's in
the act of making things that we figure out who we are. —
Austin Kleon

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 simplest answer is to act. —
A.S. King

Act the way you want to be and soon you will be the way you act. —
Iyanla Vanzant

Heavenly Father, I will reason; I will will; I will act; but guide Thou my reason, will, and activity to the right thing that I should do. —
Paramahansa Yogananda

The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new. —
Andrew Root

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best. —
Adolph Malan
The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know. —
Kamal Ravikant

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

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

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs. —
Brother Lawrence

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown. —
Martin Luther

The greatest act of love is to pay attention. —
Diane Sawyer
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. —
Frances Moore Lappe

Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon. —
Ann Coulter

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all. —
Gary Cooper

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time. —
Romesh Gunesekera

To act upon something so basic as love is not selfish. Everybody has the right to love whomever he happens to love. —
Scylar Tyberius

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act. —
Jerry Springer

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information. —
Ronald Kessler

You forgot the 'my precious,'" Anna said dryly. "If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right. —
Patricia Briggs
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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. —
Randy Alcorn

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people. —
Jim

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity. —
Thomas C. Oden

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

Death is just the last scene of the last act. —
Joyce Carol Oates

The balancing act is challenging at times. —
Jeremy Jones

Mistake is act happen unknowingly,Repetition of Mistake is no more mistake but its act of your choice which you try to hide behind the word "Mistake —
Mohammed Zaki Ansari

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way. —
Tina Turner

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us. —
Kim Stanley Robinson

Even in extreme conditions, we should not act according to the flesh, for it lusts against the spirit —
Sunday Adelaja

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression. —
Kirstie Alley
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. —
Merle Shain

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials. —
L. Neil Smith

Izzy felt as though she'd wandered into the third act of a play. She had no idea what was going on, but it was unbearably dramatic. —
Tessa Dare

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man. —
Thomas Carlyle

The Dream Act as it's been written originally is too broad, to be honest. It basically would apply to too many people. —
Marco Rubio

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act. —
Billy Boyd

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

Every act of love is a dagger in the heart of ISIS. May they bleed to death. —
Johnnie Moore

Your soul has a single basic function-
the act of valuing. —
Ayn Rand

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect. —
David Gray

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

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself. —
Felix Adler

She clutched him, her fingers digging in like she needed to gather parts of him to act as her own second skin for the rest of her life. —
Melina Marchetta

The slightest act of love holds greater spiritual power than a thousand rituals. —
Matshona Dhliwayo