- Nov 07, 2020
Act Quotes
On acting, performing, and the difference between talk and action.
This page gathers quotes that use the word act in different senses - the nervous energy of live performance, and the question of who should be trusted to act as an advocate in a courtroom. Readers who like these might also enjoy Just quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Imagination
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
- Hope
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.
- Nov 07, 2020
The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.
- Miracle
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.
- Person
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Criticize the act, not the person.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
- Being
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I am opposed to abortion on demand, and I am opposed to the 1967 Act in Britain being transferred to the north.
- Getting
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.
- Annual
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The Budget Act of 1974 established a timetable for the annual budget process. Under Title III of the Act, Congress is to complete action on the concurrent resolution on the budget by April 15.
- Helpful
- |
- Nov 07, 2020