Act Quotes

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.

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

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

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.