Act Quotes

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You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else… — Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home. — Terry Tempest Williams
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the… — Terry Tempest Williams
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one — Dalton Trumbo
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention, — Dorothea Lange
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the… — Nadine Gordimer
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityâ€”judiciously, as you willâ€”we'll act again, creating… — Karl Rove
Art alone makes life possible â€“ this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable… — Joseph Beuys
These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them.… — David Emerald Womeldorff
Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims. — David Emerald Womeldorff
Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. — Wallace D. Wattles
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do — Jack Nicholson
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of… — Thomas Carlyle
...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of believers were to… — Ian Christie
Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk… — Jonathan Dimbleby
Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That… — John Gummer
Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men. — Janet Morris
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist. — Jeanne Moreau

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