Act Quotes

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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law. — D. H. Lawrence
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that… — Adyashanti
The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without… — Percy Williams Bridgman
Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it… — Mata Amritanandamayi
In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must… — Claude Bernard
We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You… — Samuel Morse
Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we… — M. Scott Peck
For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery — D. H. Lawrence
Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but… — Ben H. Winters
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before… — William Styron
If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in… — Dani Shapiro
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives — Abba Eban
I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing. — Jessica Hahn
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery. — Molly Haskell
I don't think I'll ever act again. — Sean Connery
What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act… — Agnes Meyer Driscoll
There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general. — James Randi
We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964. — Clarence Thomas
I would say some of the food I talk about that I really enjoy, like cake and bacon, I eat a lot less than I… — Jim Gaffigan
The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness. — Aeschylus
... the greatest act of love is to pay attention. — Diane Sawyer
I don't act; I react. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

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