Act Quotes

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

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.