Top 100 Act That Quotes
#1. Successful marriage was a balancing act - that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation -
Stephen King
#2. TRUST ADJUST
An act that changes perception can elevate or lower integrity
Kamil Ali
#3. Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves,
William Zinsser
#4. Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.
Marcel Proust
#5. I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.
Cameron Dokey
#6. Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
Ringo Starr
#7. Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
Miguel De Unamuno
#8. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
Eugene H. Peterson
#9. So as one sin of Adam brought the punishment of death to all people, so too one good act that Christ did makes all people right with God, bringing them true life . One man disobeyed God, and many became sinners. In the same way, one man obeyed God, and many will be made right.
Saint Paul The Apostle
#10. To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.
Scott Caan
#11. Oppressed with countless little daily cares, he had waited ... For an act. A free, considered act; that should pledge his whole life, and stand at the beginning of a new existence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#13. Killing a Jew was an insignificant, legitimate, authorized, and encouraged act that conformed with the directives of the Reich. Protecting a Jew led to capital punishment.
Patrick Desbois
#14. Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Vaclav Havel
#15. You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter.
Gene Wolfe
#16. The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.
Kofi Annan
#17. In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
#18. Yet I believe, as I say, that it was precisely this underhand act that gave birth to her vitriol, for people are at their least forgiving when they themselves have been underhand, as though they would exact their innocence from you at any price.
Rachel Cusk
#19. I never came with a conscious plan to replace anyone else. Stallone does feel that way. He is a real tough guy in real life, and he gets to act that out. If you meet him and work with him, he is what he is. He is a guy that works out every day.
Dolph Lundgren
#20. In my experience, cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional heart of a piece of writing to emerge.
Pamela Erens
#21. I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.
Erich Fromm
#22. Soon the day would cleave in two, forever creating the before and after of my life, and it would happen in one swift act that I could no more alter than the color of my eyes.
Mary E. Pearson
#23. O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
Homer
#24. So long as the investigation is still open, Gunnels explains, there is no way to request documents pertaining to the case through the Freedom of Information Act. "That investigation will probably stay open a long time," he says.
Matt Taibbi
#25. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship ... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter F. Drucker
#26. Never get pushed down by the people that don't like you. Act that you are getting down by them, but keep going for your dreams and objectives of life.
Wouter Van Gastel
#27. I'm sure the only act that sells more books than a good banning is a good burning.
Pansy Schneider-Horst
#28. The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it ... [I]f followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.
Clarence Thomas
#29. Who's to say what's evil? A man's beliefs are his own business. Neither the Church nor anybody else has the right to tell you how to act; that's what real freedom is about: to be able to be who you really are, not what you are expected or supposed to be.
Richard Ramirez
#30. We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
Angelus Silesius
#31. I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.
Patti Davis
#32. I've decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I've been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.
Roman Payne
#33. 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.
Jeb Bush
#34. A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.
John Robbins
#35. All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.
Angela Lansbury
#36. In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.
Joyce Van Patten
#37. 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.
Henrik Ibsen
#38. Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
James Purefoy
#39. I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.
Thom Mayne
#41. What do I mean by sin? Answer: Any human condition or act that robs God of glory by stripping one of His children of their right to divine dignity ... I can offer still another answer: 'Sin is any act or thought that robs myself or another human being of his or her self-esteem'.
Robert H. Schuller
#42. Meditation is not an act that has to be done separately or to be achieved in isolation of the forests. It is a quality, which continuously gets enhanced with the habit of doing even the smallest of the tasks with full concentration.
Deep Trivedi
#43. I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.
Shane Black
#44. Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Bobby Jindal
#45. The total acceptance of ourselves in the present moment without judging things that happen, letting things happen as they happen, is the final act that frees us from the ego: this is the unconditional surrender of the ego to the Higher Self.
Human Angels
#46. People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.
Tim Vine
#47. It's never the act but the impact of the act that is crucial in a memoir.
David Leite
#48. Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
DeForest Soaries
#49. It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#50. One doesn't love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object.
Paulo Coelho
#51. The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
#52. I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
Edie Falco
#53. Accepting the thought, emotion or sensation at face value is an act that is both loving and liberating.
Heidi DuPree
#54. ACTUOSE (ACTUO'SE) adj.[from act.]That which hath strong powers of action; a word little used.
Samuel Johnson
#55. Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.
Russ Feingold
#56. You used to have the jokes about never fixing the roof until it rained. People were undoubtedly the same now, or worse. They might well wait until something happened that forced them to act; that something would almost certainly be unpleasant - most likely, serious. Yet
George R. Stewart
#57. If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood of a payday is slim to none.
Robert Gossett
#58. Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.
Phyllis Theroux
#59. Internet pharmacies return to consumers the choice promised by supporters of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. That law established federal requirements for drug safety and labeling but exempted prescription medicines from the labeling rules.
Virginia Postrel
#60. Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?
Gloria Allred
#61. There's really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That's kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that.
Clint Eastwood
#62. All of us need just one good accomplishment in order to get by. Obviously he can't spend the rest of his life climbing trees, but it's the agility and enterprise involved in the act that will make him a survivor. Enough
Ruskin Bond
#63. Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what makes it interesting. In life the first act is always exciting. The second act, that is where the depth comes in.
Joyce Van Patten
#64. By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
Rachel Carson
#65. If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'
Rodney Carrington
#66. Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
Emmanuelle Beart
#67. I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.
Idris Elba
#68. Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.
John Oliver
#69. In my head, Carlisle's kind eyes did not judge me. I knew that he would forgive me for this horrible act that I would do. Because he loved me. Because he thought I was better than I was. And he would still love me, even as I now proved him wrong.
Stephenie Meyer
#70. In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges
#71. But we ourselves would not be alive if some innocent Being had not first seen us. That was the act that planted the seed of the whole universe, and it was an act of love. You will know your own innocence again when you can see the love that breathes within every iota of creation.
Deepak Chopra
#72. I just want a big HBO special or a network or somebody willing to get behind my work and promote it. The most frustrating thing for me is to have this successful act that resonates across the country, and the network guys just don't get it. Everyone sees it except them. I want to leave a mark.
Gary Owen
#73. Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.
Richard Grasso
#74. Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude, so as to produce a free act that expresses the most possible in one given condition or another.
Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 73
Gilles Deleuze
#75. When a person expends the least possible amount of energy on a certain act, that is grace.
Anton Chekhov
#76. When I rely on my faith, I know God wants to reward and bless me but not because of some great act that I did but because of who He is.
Torii Hunter
#77. Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing ... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.
Rene Huyghe
#78. I'm so excited to act; that has been a huge passion for me.
Avril Lavigne
#79. Which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.
Dave Barry
#80. Forgiving is an inward act that establishes outer boundaries; it is an undefeatable triumph of self-compassion that proclaims you are no longer a victim.
Bryant McGill
#81. Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]
William O. Douglas
#82. Maybe what made me cry in class was how tired I was and how sad and hard it is, and how rare, to undertake an act that's truly free, and not just a response to a confused surge of drives and fears.
Ariana Reines
#83. Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.
Julius Genachowski
#84. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#85. Tomorrow you'll receive your employment contracts. Once you sign those I'm your boss." When I didn't answer he said, "That means you act the way I want you to act. That means you shelve your attitude and the twenty questions."
"Should I shelve those next to 'personality'?
Samantha Young
#86. We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest. The
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#87. Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.
Rebecca Solnit
#88. No sir, no. We act that role for which we have been cast, that role which we are given in life. And in my own case, passion itself, as usually happens, becomes a trifle theatrical when it is exalted.
Luigi Pirandello
#89. I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
Jackie Evancho
#90. Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#91. Act that way and slowly but surely I will fade away. All the dawns and all the twilights will rob me, piece by piece, of myself, and before long my very life will be shaved away completely - and I would end up nothing.
Haruki Murakami
#92. Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.
Julian Assange
#93. I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.
Aaliyah
#94. I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.
Colin Quinn
#95. The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive.
William Gibson
#96. I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment.
Jana Kramer
#97. If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.
Shams Tabrizi
#98. The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.
Francis Ford Coppola
#99. It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it.
Isabelle Huppert
#100. And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.
Paul Russell
