Act Quotes - page 2

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. (John Updike)
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I will act as if what I do makes a difference. View quote
William James
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. View quote
Ron Paul
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). View quote
O. Henry
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. View quote
Norman Mailer
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. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. View quote
Henry Miller
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act. (Burt Reynolds)
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. View quote
Hans Hofmann
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one. View quote
Frances Farmer
Think globally, act locally. View quote
Paul McCartney
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. View quote
Coco Chanel
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. View quote
Scott Adams
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. (Martha Graham)
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. View quote
Dorothea Brande
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. View quote
Peter Ustinov
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings. View quote
Anton Chekhov