Act Quotes

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

So we still need a permanent fix. The president would sign the Dream Act tomorrow, the next day, the day after that. That's ultimately the only way to fix this, is for congressional action.

My limits are limitless. I find my limits every time I act.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.