Act Quotes

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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act… — Don DeLillo
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women. — Brit Marling
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to… — Kenny Smith
On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals… — Dalai Lama
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to… — Alan Watts
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last… — Ayn Rand
Hate nobody; love everybody. It won't cost you anything. Love never costs anything. Love is the most selfish act. It gives you so much protection,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid… — Kenneth Lee Pike
People are saying that they want be convinced [about global warming], perfectly. They want to know the climate science projections with 100 per cent certainty.… — Gordon R. Sullivan
Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately… — Basil Hume
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. — Laura Riding
But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act… — Lydia Davis
Spirituality is a flower with a thousand petals: every act, every thought, every talk, every movement of our heart is a part of it. — Robert Muller
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this… — Gaston Bachelard
...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun… — Meister Eckhart
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: — Mahatma Gandhi
Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition… — William George Jordan
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be… — Thomas Nagel
But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art… — Marcus Aurelius
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which… — John Berger
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will… — Antonin Scalia
LSD, wisely used by professionals, could reprogram enough nervous systems to accelerate consciousness and intelligence before we laid ourselves and our planet waste."To use your… — Timothy Leary
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. — Victor Hugo
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come… — Elijah Cummings

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