Acts Quotes

I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.

I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

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.