Act Quotes

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

I've got a tough act to follow.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

I've always supported the DREAM Act. I'm a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

All I ever wanted to do was act.

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

I can't act!

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

I try to act out of faith.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.

I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

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.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.