Act Quotes

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

I try to act out of faith.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

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.