Act Quotes

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I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated… — Konrad Lorenz
If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true. — Roger Ebert
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection. — Irving Babbitt
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. — Irving Babbitt
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences. — Samuel Smiles
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of… — Jorge Luis Borges
Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may… — Jean Genet
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to… — Hannah Arendt
I try to act out of faith. — Marian Wright Edelman
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative. — Robert Fripp
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. — Marty Feldman
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative. — Abba Eban
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or… — Aleister Crowley
My whole act is confession. — Shelley Berman
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of… — William Blackstone
I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out. — David Chase
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence,… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished. — Edward Coke
I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to bounce off this… — Clint Eastwood
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as… — Arundhati Roy
I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose. — Billy Carter
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy… — Don DeLillo
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a… — Charles Peguy
People today distinguish between knowledge and action and pursue them separately, believing that one must know before he can act... . They say [they will… — Wang Yangming
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux

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