Top 1200 Sister Act Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We promised the Accountability Act, we delivered the Accountability Act.

The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.

Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act

Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.

I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.

I am thankful to those who've listened to my story over and over as well as those who've helped me share it. For me, the act of storytelling is an act of healing.

I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

Didn't know I had a half sister until I was 12 or 13. So that was interesting.

My father believed that you should do what you love so you can do it forever. That's the reason my sister is an actress.

What I'd like is to act on film. I'd really like to act.

I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.

For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.

My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.

My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people.

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.

"Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister." And that's all she has to say.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

When people are motivated by principles larger than themselves, you don't have to beat them over the head to get them to act. You simply empower them, you inform them, you give them tools, and they take it upon themselves to act.

If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.

Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways that they wouldn't normally act out. Especially rock critics. Ultimately, records don't really hurt anybody, and neither do reviews.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

I love London - its where I'm born and bred - but New York just has such an energy when you're walking around, and if you act or you write and you act like I do, its just such a good town for you because people here like people who can do more than one thing.

As soon as something really bad happens, I guarantee you Congress will act. I absolutely guarantee you Congress will act. But the question is, should we wait for that?

I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community. I hope that my being real with you will help empower you to step into who you are and encourage you to share yourself with those around you.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

My dad was a principal and coach. My sister was a superintendent of schools in West Virginia.

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.

I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister

Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.

One time I watched my sister eat a raw potato with peanut butter on it.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

Only in 2016 can a brother and sister have problems over the same man.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.

My sister and mom are both cancer survivors. If they're going to whip it, so am I.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.

Neymar doesn't need to act - he's an excellent player, and he has everything a high-level player needs. He's one of the top five players in the world; why does he need to act? It doesn't bring him sympathy, and it's not good for him.

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.

One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.

Alice! You know I love you like a sister!" "Words." she growled.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

It likes it when you don’t depend on it. It will reward you every time you don’t act needy. It will chase you if you act like other things (passion, friendship, family, longevity) are more important to you. If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Forgiving someone does not mean you condone their behavior. The act of forgiveness takes place in your own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person. The reality of true forgiveness lies in setting ourselves free from holding on to the pain. It is simply an act of releasing yourself from the negative energy.

I have a comic character - my sister said that I'm the victim of every joke I tell.

To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!

The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.

We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

The Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety provisions of the Clean Water Acts, the Clean Air Act, the Superfund Law - the gas industry is exempt from all these basic environmental and worker protections. They don't have to disclose the chemicals they use. They don't have to play by the same rules as anybody else.

I was not expecting my sister to ask me to be her best man. I was so honored.