Act Quotes

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

I'd personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.