Top 1200 Caught In The Act Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

The Fishable Waters Act shares the same intent of the Clean Water Act by proposing to fulfill goals that have not yet been met to restore and maintain the biological integrity of the nation's waters. The intent of the bill is to enhance the Clean Water Act instead of undercutting it.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

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

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

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

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

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

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.

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

Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.

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

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.

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.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

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

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

In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

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.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.

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.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

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

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

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

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.

Raphael continued to stare at me, in no hurry to get started. "You know the best way to get rid of a demon, right?" He asked with a serious face. I caught Ivy rolling her eyes as I shook my head. "Exorcise alot!" Ivy caught my expression of dismay. "It's okay, Beth. He's famous for his bad jokes. We're still waiting for him to grow up." "And like Peter Pan, I hope to avoid that at all costs.

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

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

People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They become masters of jargon and power structures.

If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.

These were always obsessions of mine, even as a very young child. These were things that interested me as the years went on. My friends were more preoccupied with social issues - issues such as abortion, racial discrimination, and Communism - and those issues just never caught my interest. Of course they mattered to me as a citizen to some degree...but they never really caught my attention artistically.

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

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

I coach my mentees to act as if they are invincible - to act as if they could accomplish anything!

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

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

If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.

It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.

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

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

It's easy to get caught up in a moment and think, 'Oh, I've been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.' And it's easy to get caught up in a moment because it's flattering. But you can't do a movie because it's flattering.

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

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