Absent Quote by Akkineni Nagarjuna

All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which…

— John Stuart Mill

Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act…

— Cormac McCarthy

All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.

— Brenna Yovanoff

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

— Michel de Montaigne

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

— Milan Kundera

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

— Gary Busey

I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really…

— Zadie Smith

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

— Elbert Hubbard

Deeds without sincerity are like a traveler who carries in his water-jug dirt. The carrying of it burdens him and it brings no benefit.

— Ibn Al Qayyim

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

— Anonymous

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

— Thomas Jefferson

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske