First Act Quotes

59 quotes by 50 authors

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so… — Adam Garcia
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. — John Ensign
Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. — Pythagoras
It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act.… — Harold Ramis
Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. -… — Mahatma Gandhi
I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a… — Dorothy Parker
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in… — Bell Hooks
Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God… — Jerry Bridges
The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third… — Stephen J. Cannell
The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act. — Eydie Gorme
Affection is sign of love, laughing is sign of happiness, praying is sign of good faith and choosing me as a friend is your first… — Norden
If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Mickey, we're missing our first act, Jafar and Iago. — Minnie Mouse
In order for a government to act humanely towards someone, it must first act inhumanely towards someone else — L. Neil Smith
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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