The Act Quotes

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

In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in. — Joyce Van Patten

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

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure. — John D. Barrow

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

I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit. — Gary LeVox

The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure. — Noah Webster

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world. — Stanley Crawford

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college. — Gwyneth Paltrow

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path. — Charlene Costanzo

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security. — Bill Owens

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. — Eduardo Souto De Moura

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation. — Wayne Dyer

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

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it. — Rachel Hunter

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. — Ida B. Wells

The creative process must be explored ... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. — Rollo May

Mothers can be so dense. Just act like you approve of what we're doing. We'll soon do the exact opposite, just to spite you. — Cat Clarke

I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it. — Robert Creeley

transform yourself by the renewing of your mind. When you believe differently, you act differently and start to get different results. — James Sinclair

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father — Brigham Young

To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck. — John Kuypers

Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is. — Rob Liano

The science is crystal clear: we humans are the primary cause of global warming, and we face a bleak future if we fail to act quickly. — Joseph J. Romm

By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love. — Antonin Sertillanges

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it. — Joan Rivers

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself. — Deepak Chopra

Each drop hits the pavement;
A soft, incoherent shatter below.
Here I stand in torturous observance
Of this strange disappearing act. — Katie Douglas

The prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me. — Tony Danza

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

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

The balancing act is challenging at times. — Jeremy Jones

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know. — Kamal Ravikant

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

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

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 act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. — Frances Moore Lappe

The greatest act of love is to pay attention. — Diane Sawyer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. — Merle Shain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best. — Adolph Malan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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