Act Quotes

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.