Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
I act because I find everything about cinema fun and exciting.
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community’s coast guard.
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world’s most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
Architecture is definitely a political act.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I’m much more expressive off stage.
When I did ‘Naanum Rowdy Thaan’ with Nayanthara, she was in the peak of her career – I was apprehensive about her willingness to act with me.
Monaco’s neutrality is one of our main attributes – the role of small countries is to act as go-betweens between big nations.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it’s 30 years later.
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.
Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to pass from father to son.
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades – and evidence is mounting that what’s happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.
I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don’t organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.
I’m a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
The language ‘It’s too late’ is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It’s too late for the dodo and for people who’ve starved to death already, but it’s not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
I was in the playground, like, ‘Let’s imitate the Spice Girls and form a girl group!’ I would go home and sing into my hairbrush and act like Britney Spears. I was no Mozart.
After I finished my degree in Mass Communication in Manipal, I enrolled for a cinematography course in Pune Film Institute. That is when Nandini Reddy, the director of ‘Ala Modalaindi,’ convinced me to act.
Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
If you act like you know what you’re going, you can do anything you want – except neurosurgery.
Loving a country is an act of the imagination.
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, in which more than two million Ukrainian Jews died, Ukraine calls on Israel to also recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
An ethical man doesn’t need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.
It’s so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you’re tossed out of it, it’s almost like you have to remember how to act again!
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
‘Cars 2’ is about a character learning to be himself. There’s times in our lives where people always say, ‘Well, you’ve gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.’ That’s the emotional core of the story.
President Obama famously promised that the Affordable Care Act would not only slow the growth in health care costs, but would also reverse these trends, making the average health insurance plan cheaper. That isn’t happening.
I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don’t act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
In today’s world everything is political. We are a statement – our clothes, haircut, the way we act.
Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.
I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever’s captured is captured so that’s a little more daunting.
Acknowledging someone is an act of altruism in the first place, so converting that act of altruism into a pizza party or company fleece jacket or a gift card is fine, but it’s not in keeping with spirit in which it all began.
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 that that can happen often.
I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
