Act Quotes

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

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.

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

Speak less but act more.

When I was an academic, I'd sometimes get a little feeling of excitement when I had an idea that was, I hoped, fresh. And whether anyone should act on that idea is a very different question.

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.