Top 1200 Act Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny... To me, those are people who think the rules don't apply to them.

Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.

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

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

There is no other country that has the Cuban Adjustment Act; that's why it's called the Cuban Adjustment Act and not the Nicaraguan Adjustment Act.

Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.

Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

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.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

I'm an actor that loves to eat on camera. I love it. Something about the act of eating means that you actually can't act as much. You have to be involved in the very real task of trying to ingest sustenance without choking and dying. Something about that process takes the heat off trying to act and often feels more natural.

Asking for advice is an act of humility.... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

I am pleased to see portions of my own robocall bill, the 'Stopping Bad Robocalls Act,' incorporated in the TRACED Act.

I always think out a problem as clearly as possible, and then act on it. My theory has always been to get started. The moment I get an idea I act upon it. If only people would act on more of their ideas, I am convinced they would lead more interesting lives.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

I'd like to see the first act of Sunday in the Park with George, and the second act of Hamilton. Every day.

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

Living from the perspective at which you came from and returning to source really is an act of remembering, rather than an act of learning.

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

Broadly speaking, the problems with the Espionage Act are that it is hopelessly broad. And we tend to use the Espionage Act - we think about the Espionage Act as forbidding disclosures of classified information. That's not really what the statute says. What the statute talks about is information related to the national defense.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously...

If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.

If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it.