Top 1200 Caught In The Act Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.

I feel so bad for him [Bernie Sanders]. It's really unfortunate that he's been caught in the crossfire here.

I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years, and who are willing to detach themselves from their tribal relations, should not be admitted to the benefit of the homestead act and the privileges of citizenship, and I recommend the passage of a law to that effect. It will be an act of justice as well as a measure of encouragement.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

Unprecedented in modern British history and outside all normal civil service rules, a bunch of MPs, some of them working with foreign governments, wrote primary legislation - 'the Surrender Act' also known as the Benn Act - without any of the scrutiny of who influenced and who funded it that is normal for legislation.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.

And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.

To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.

I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away.

If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll.

There are different types of double act: the classic dumb-and-dumber, like Morecambe and Wise; the good cop/bad cop, where one's a bit spiky and the other's daft. Sue Perkins and I take what we might call the Ant and Dec approach: the double act came out of our friendship.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

I love the beards and the cars and the girls and the different guitars, but I'm not at all caught up in the image thing.

We must see ourselves as co-manifestors -- partners in manifestation -- all engaged in the primal act of unfoldment and emergence. Each act of manifestation may be directed toward a specific outcome, but it also contributes to the greater manifestation of the wholeness, love, compassion, and creativity of the primal source from which we all come.

Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.

I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

I know there are going to be people who criticize what I do no matter what, but I'm just trying to not get caught up in it.

You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Sublime moments refracted, Even if only for seconds, Caught forever in your soul.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

I didn't take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that's when I went to being the MVP.

Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you're a little hard to swallow. With your tacky romantic drama and your defender-of-the-helpless act. Only it isn't an act, which makes you more unbearable. Please feel free to take this personally.

Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a choice in). This short, powerful statement assured me that I have the freedom, in spite of and because of my birth, body, race, gender expectations, and economic resources, to define myself for myself and for others.

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.

I'm not a guy who really gets caught up in outside noise or opinions, or anything like that.

One of the horribly frustrating things about writing feature films is the rules everyone applies and says, 'You have to do this by the end of the first act and by the end of the second act you must introduce this.' As if there were rules to life or telling a story or the ways things happen, which of course there aren't.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

There is immense pressure of being caught in the rat race. At such times, I'm glad I have just one child.

You can't get too caught up in trying to pitch a complete game, because that's hard to do.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?

I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.

The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.