Act Quotes

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.

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

My whole act is confession.