It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
My Mom and Dad always told me to not act on emotion, act on what is real. When you’re mad don’t do something wrong because you’re mad.
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‘Dust and Ashes Act,’ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
Block by block, street by street, our city has the resources, the activism, and the ideas to meet these challenges if we act boldly and reshape what’s possible. After all, Boston was founded on a revolutionary promise: that things don’t have to be as they always have been.
The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.
I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
We have had examples in our industry of people working for 30-40 years because of their ability to act. Your looks leave you after a point, you don’t look the same way you did when you were in your 20s or 30s. After that you have only your ability to show.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
What’s powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It’s seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.
I spent so much of my time when I was growing up just worrying about what people thought of me, about my appearance, how I should act in school, how to… be popular and all that rubbish. Stop worrying about everything. Everything’s going to be okay.
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
It can’t be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on those beliefs by going to marches and making a difference where I can.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
There is nothing better than an attractive woman who doesn’t act attractive.
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
Caring – about people, about things, about life – is an act of maturity.
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn’t going to work.
I would like to act in films of all genres.
All I ever wanted to do was act.
To love is to act.
I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
We can’t give excessive, unfettered power to a president to act alone, to bind an entire country to a set of principles, a set of rules that the president, him or herself, makes.
As an MP, my first duty is to act in the national interest, regardless of party affiliation.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves – and be free.
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business.
This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don’t act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
When enacted into law, the ‘Protect America First Act’ will end the flood of illegal border crossings unleashed during the first 50 days of the Biden administration.
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.
Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say ‘high Anglo-Catholic’ would be a real English understatement.
When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn’t put one over the other.
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government – as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance – people feel powerless.
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
When you create something new, you’re breaking tradition – which is an act of defiance.
