Act Quotes

8447 Act quotes by 4801 unique authors

Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways,… — Ravi Zacharias
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery. — Richard John Neuhaus
When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood… — Elizabeth Bowen
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all… — Julian Assange
The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of… — Julian Assange
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every… — H. L. Mencken
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the… — Unknown Author
The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly. — Robert Sternberg
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason. — Joseph Glanvill
And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends. — Dar Williams
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost… — Kate Millett
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice. — Sheila Jeffreys
People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another. — Paul Ekman
Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity. — David Deutsch
To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe… — Tim LaHaye
Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence… — Paul Davies
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics -… — Paul Davies
In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live… — Christian D. Larson
The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you know? I don't… — Mark Millar
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment… — A. R. Ammons
I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act. — Jerry Springer
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words.… — James Fenton
The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know… — Murray Gell-Mann
There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time, — James Hansen
The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics. — Corliss Lamont

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