Act Quotes

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

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

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act.aI've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.

Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.

The economy is too weak right now. We need to jump-start it. The American Jobs Act will provide that jump-start, to help us into next year and the year after that.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.