Act Quotes - page 3

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace. (Eckhart Tolle)
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. View quote
Henry Hazlitt
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act. View quote
Arthur Miller
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are. View quote
Bradley Whitford
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. View quote
Horace Mann
The producer. This is a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. View quote
James Agate
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. (William James)
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. View quote
William James
Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. View quote
Paulo Coelho
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. View quote
Vivien Leigh
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The honour is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator. View quote
James Shirley
There is no act more moral between men than that of rule And obedience. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. View quote
Edmund Burke
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. View quote
Edmund Burke
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did. (T. E. Lawrence)
If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one! View quote
Arno Allan Penzias
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead