Top 100 Quotes About The Act
#1. The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.
Lysander Spooner
#2. Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.
T. S. Eliot
#3. I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.
Paul Auster
#4. The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.
Harry Shearer
#5. THERE IS, IN the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children
Mark Lawrence
#7. Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make - stories that sell and stories that spread.
Seth Godin
#8. A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.
Bill Engvall
#9. For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.
Madeleine L'Engle
#10. She was also sure that having experienced the act first hand would probably benefit her writing. If anything she should have sex for her job. Yes, she definitely owed it to her readers to go out and have sex.
R.L. Mathewson
#11. What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
Tea Obreht
#12. Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
Anne Carson
#13. On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.
Chuck Wendig
#14. I'm fine with death. I've dealt out more than my share. It's the act of dyin' that bothers me.
Mike Kalmbach
#15. But greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it. I
Kevin Hearne
#16. I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.
Ilona Andrews
#17. To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.
Michel De Montaigne
#18. I've heard it said that prayer is the act of talking to God, while meditation is the act of listening.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#19. A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.
Susan Sontag
#20. I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.
James Lipton
#21. [The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.
Thomas Hutchinson
#22. I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
William Scott
#23. The act of paying attention contains tremendous power.
Deepak Chopra
#24. Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.
Sathya Sai Baba
#25. For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.
Joss Whedon
#26. Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.
Antonin Scalia
#27. If mouths cold commit the act, his made very hot, passionate love to mine last night.
Nicole Williams
#28. 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
#29. The only answer that I give to you
is doing it," he said. "A just request
is to be met in silence, by the act.
Dante Alighieri
#30. What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen wasn't really a pen at all, but some strange variety of skeleton key.
Stephen King
#31. Since Pussy never had thought, nor would she think, that women shouldn't have abortions, she had to come to terms with the realization that to be human, and woman, includes the possibility and even the act of murder.
Kathy Acker
#32. I am the seeker, the act of seeking, and the one who is sought.
Karan Bajaj
#33. With self-confidence, self-education and self-discipline, you can master the act in any chosen field.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
Zola Jesus
#36. In the act of watching the television news, audiences cross the globe, one moment viewing a scene in a wide aerial shot, the next moment seeing an emotional close up of a victim's face. By extending the physical senses to impossible dimensions, media provide audiences a near metaphysical adventure.
James Houran
#37. We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.
J. William Fulbright
#38. When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
Ansel Adams
#40. To motivate" is the act of giving somebody a reason or incentive to do things.
Pearl Zhu
#41. Those that think banks and governments are making them poor haven't seen the whole picture. Poverty is the act of trusting their system.
Robin Sacredfire
#42. The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#43. For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
Adam Mansbach
#45. He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
#47. The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.
Quincy Jones
#48. The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.
Alice Waters
#49. No human mind can fully grasp the gift of Christ's atonement, the vastness and inclusiveness of the act - but in the end, it comes down to just you and Jesus. You've come, and He's met you with open arms - and now it's just between the two of you.
Toni Sorenson
#50. Average reality begins to rot and stink as soon as the act of individual creation ceases to animate a subjectively perceived texture.
Vladimir Nabokov
#51. The first is that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong.
Malcolm Gladwell
#52. There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
Angela Carter
#53. Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another's is more like comparing an elephant to an apple, it makes no sense to compare someone's life that you have no knowledge about to that of your own, of which in all earnest is not something that you completely understand yourself.
Forrest Curran
#54. He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.
Virginia Woolf
#55. It was that sleep itself - the act of closing the eyes and relinquishing control of her consciousness - was something she was temperamentally unsuited to.
Clive Barker
#56. His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn't stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain to the act.
Robert Girardi
#57. Grace seeks faith like a heat-seeking missile. In salvation, the act of faith is a raw admission of helplessness. It is abject humility reaching out empty hands. By exercising faith, you acknowledge your inability so that you might rest on Christ's ability.
Bill Giovannetti
#58. That's why I love talking and teaching: the act of reproducing ideas out loud reinforces them in the head. If, every time you read a complex book or idea, you had to explain it to someone else, you'd never forget it.
Stephen Fry
#59. Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.
Daisaku Ikeda
#60. When leaders die to pushing their own agendas and realize that leadership is the act of dying to self, those around them are profoundly transformed. Selfless leadership opens a space for God to flow into.
Mark Sayers
#61. I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.
Oliver Sacks
#62. I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.
Alexander Theroux
#63. The prisoner of Auschwitz, in the first phase of shock, did not fear death. Even the gas chambers lost their horrors for him after the first few days - after all, they spared him the act of committing suicide.
Viktor E. Frankl
#64. Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
Alan Turing
#65. Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.
Michael Rosen
#66. The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
Asger Jorn
#67. Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
Thomas Aquinas
#68. The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.
Thomas Aquinas
#69. - It is far more complicated to have the sex one sees being carried out nowadays, a mere mechanical act, causing tension during the act, and emptiness afterwards.
Paulo Coelho
#70. Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true to the way you were created.
Timothy Simpson
#71. To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.
William Shakespeare
#73. The act of prayer present an opportunity to communicate and connect to the Supreme being,God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. The act of vomiting deserves your respect. It's an orchestral event of the gut.
Mary Roach
#76. In light of this, I say that the definition of a cyclist needs a qualifier, and that it should be: (1) a person who rides a bicycle even when he or she doesn't have to; (2) a person who values the act of riding a bicycle over the tools one needs in order to do it.
BikeSnobNYC
#77. 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
#78. Insomnia is the act of pushing through sleep to achieve the art of insane creativity.
Todd Stocker
#79. Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can dois to write, for in the act of writing we deny our mutedness and beginto eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.
Dale Spender
#80. On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.
Amanda Palmer
#81. When you are frightened, don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage.
Grace Ogot
#82. It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.
Philip Guston
#83. Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
Cormac McCarthy
#84. The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.
Frederick Lenz
#85. Memory is fiction ... All memory is a way of reconstructing the past ... The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. "Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room." The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]
Damon Galgut
#86. To perceive means to immobilize ... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
Henri Bergson
#87. I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind of statement. Rather, it's inherent in the act of expressing myself, as a woman who is deeply alienated from mainstream cinematic structures of seeing. I express myself and am instantly feminist.
Nina Menkes
#88. Any act would be forgiven him, but the act itself would remain; what he would leave in the world would be the shame and hurt he forced upon others. This could not be.
David Kirk
#89. Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.
Anne Waldman
#90. Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act.
Margaret Whiting
#91. From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia
Paulo Freire
#92. It's possible to transform the violent energy of our time into a culture of kindness.
All things are possible through the openness of our mind, the gentleness of our spirit, and the act of understanding and embracing.
Lily Yeh
#93. The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.
Mariah Nelson
#94. Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much of the world, the act of giving life to a child is still the biggest killer of women of child-bearing age?
Liya Kebede
#95. One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.
Matthew Desmond
#96. I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
Karen Elson
#97. How roundly self-examination is condemned, by the moral prophets of our age! As if the self had no relation to the self, and one only looked in mirrors to have one's arrogance confirmed; as if the act of self-regarding was not as subtle, fraught and ever-changing as any bond between twin souls.
Eleanor Catton
#98. More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.
Boris Beizer
#99. Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
Seth
#100. Ah," said Arthur, "er ... " He had an odd feeling of being like a man in the act of adultery who is surprised when the woman's husband wanders into the room, changes his trousers, passes a few idle remarks about the weather and leaves again.
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