Top 1200 Simple Act Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

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

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.

You can get more with a simple prayer and a Thompson sub-machinegun than you can with a simple prayer alone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

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

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

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

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

My routine is very simple because I realised that the more complicated the exercise sessions are, the less likely I am to make it for them. They have to be simple and doable in my daily routine.

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

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

We live in a country where movies, music, and sports are more important than God to a lot of people. It's why Colin Kaepernick's protest rocked the nation and got the whole world talking. Taking a knee is a simple act of defiance. Had Colin done it anywhere other than the football field, it might not have even made the news.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.

Only in a nation like ours could someone like me, the scrappy son of a simple carpenter, grow up to become a simple senator.

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.

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.

[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.

I believe the core of most of us women is very simple. We want to feel appreciated, acknowledged, and something as simple as flowers with a little note or some love letters goes a long way.

People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

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

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

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

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

A simple caricature, a simple sketch - that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. But if you draw up a caricature... if you associate that subject with the things you're not supposed to, then, of course, you can't expect that to be acceptable.

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.

It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.

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

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.

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

Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

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

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

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

You probably don't think twice about going into your kitchen and turning a few knobs to prepare a meal for yourself and your family on an electric or gas range. But for nearly 3 billion people in developing countries who depend on solid fuels to cook their food, the simple act of cooking results in 4 million premature deaths every year from exposure to toxic smoke.

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.

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

My criteria is simple, I require fantastic actors who are ready to give their best and are easy to work with. I don't like people with a lot of baggage and rather those who are simple and straightforward and their agenda is to make a brilliant film.

I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

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

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

If you wander with open eyes and simple curiosity, you'll discover a much richer pleasure - the simple feeling of possibility that hums from every direction as you move from place to place.

I think simple's good. That's why I enjoy swimming. It's very primitive, very simple.

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