Act Quotes

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Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a… — Paul Hawken
If you think about the impact of climate change, it should be how a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested… — Prince Charles
A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the… — Tony Blair
The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same… — John Robbins
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand… — Bell Hooks
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart. — Robert Herrick
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football. — Eric Cantona
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence. — Joseph Butler
People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I… — Tim Vine
I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow. — Katharine Hepburn
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they… — Hugh Prather
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every… — Soren Kierkegaard
Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act,… — Robert McKee
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's… — Paul Valery
The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to… — Noam Chomsky
Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time… — Maureen Dowd
A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm… — Bill Cosby
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of… — Winston Churchill

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