Quotes about act

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“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”

“I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”

“Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.”

“A. J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn’t believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.”

“Gardening is not a rational act.”

“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”

“Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?”

“Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed.”
~ A thought by Lessa ~”

“The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.”

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”

“Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.”

“On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.”

“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”

“Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.”

“We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”

“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”

“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”

“Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.”

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”

“In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.”

“Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.”

“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.”

“People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.”

“Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.”

“The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history—the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen”

“The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)”

“Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names… well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.”

“Are you suggesting that the gods have trouble acting together, young lady?" Dionysus asked.

Yes, Lord Dionysus."

Mr. D nodded. "Just checking. You're right, of course. Carry on.”

“In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.”

“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”

“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.”

“And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.”

“I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.”

“If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run”

“You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.”

“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”

“We're the same! Even Sonya says we are.
We've always been the same, and we're
both acting the same stupid way now! We
hold ourselves to higher standards than
everyone else.”

“An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”

“being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience”

“It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.”

“Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.”

“Though you see nothing, he is acting.”

“Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes.”

“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”

“Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”

“A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.”

“Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.”

“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”

“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”

“emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.”

“Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara)
You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical. Except for the ones who lost control of their bowels. Then it was just messy. (Nykyrian)”

“But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed of who and what you are. Others will feed off that shame, and soon it will be all that you are.”

“Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age”

“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”

“You can't be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.”

“To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.”

“It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.”

“Are you sure, Gray?'
He lifted his eyes. 'No… I'm not. I'm not sure of a damn thing.' He slipped his hands free of the monsignor's and peeled the battery off the phone, cutting the last ring in half. 'But that doesn't mean I won't act.”

“It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.”

“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”

“There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.”

“I act as the tongue of you,
… tied in your mouth…. in mine it begins to be loosened.”

“But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”

“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair… Come to it any way but lightly.”

“Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.”

“you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.”

“If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.”

“One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.”

“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”

“Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.”

“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”

“A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.”

“If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.”

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

“An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'

Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.”

“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”

“Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.”

“Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

“Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.”

“The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.”

“I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.”

“Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.”

“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.”

“There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.”

“… and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”

“I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong.”

“Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.”

“A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.”

“He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.”

“Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”

“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”

“Act first, explain later.”

“…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.”

“I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.”

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”

“We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.”

“Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.”

“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.”