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Act Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists fully only in…
- Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in…
- Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.
- Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine…
- Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking…
More Act Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt
- As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono