300 Quotes on Act

• I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.

  Author: John Zorn

• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

• I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

  Author: Neil Young

• We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

  Author: Don Young

• Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.

  Author: Alan Young

• When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

  Author: Dick York

• Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

  Author: Lee Yew

• I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

  Author: Alexander Woollcott

• I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

  Author: George Woodcock

• 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?

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

  Author: Tom Wolfe

• When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

  Author: Luke Wilson

• When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.

  Author: Treat Williams

• So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

  Author: Robbie Williams

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

  Author: Mae Whitman

• Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act.

  Author: Margaret Whiting

• When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• 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.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  Author: E. White

• Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

  Author: E. White

• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

  Author: Bryan White

• Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we'd ever had as an opening act.

  Author: Tina Weymouth

• I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

  Author: Kim Weston

• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  Author: Irvine Welsh

• The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

  Author: Ida Wells

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  Author: Orson Welles

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  Author: Orson Welles

• His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

  Author: William Weld

• Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

  Author: Jack Welch

• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  Author: Rachel Weisz

• Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.

  Author: Bernice Weissbourd

• If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

  Author: George Weinberg

• A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

  Author: Max Weber

• Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  Author: Warren Weaver

• So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

  Author: Gerard Way

• In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

  Author: Paul Watzlawick

• There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• 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.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.

  Author: Gedde Watanabe

• War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

  Author: George Washington

• What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

  Author: John Warnock

• Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.

  Author: Mark Warner

• I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

  Author: John Warner

• The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.

  Author: James Walsh

• I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

  Author: Gerald Walpin

• I always wanted to tell stories and act.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

  Author: Bernard Voto

• A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

  Author: Queen Victoria

• I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

  Author: Luther Vandross

• We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

  Author: John Updike

• To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

  Author: John Updike

• There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

  Author: Samuel Ullman

• The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

  Author: Brenda Ueland

• I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.

  Author: Alanna Ubach

• I've always wanted to act since I was little.

  Author: Alanna Ubach

• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

  Author: Anne Tyler

• I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

  Author: John Turturro

• I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

  Author: Tina Turner

• As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

  Author: Dalton Trumbo

• The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

  Author: Francois Truffaut

• Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

  Author: Obie Trice

• The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

  Author: Benicio Toro

• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Author: Mel Torme

• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

  Author: Jean Toomer

• We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

  Author: Paul Tillich

• I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  Author: Cal Thomas

• I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

  Author: Alan Thicke

• Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.

  Author: Studs Terkel

• It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

  Author: Zachary Taylor

• Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

  Author: Jeremy Taylor

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  Author: Deborah Tannen

• My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

  Author: Jeffrey Tambor

• If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

  Author: Bob Taft

• Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

  Author: Max Sydow

• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  Author: Charles Swindoll

• The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

  Author: Ethan Suplee

• If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

  Author: Nicole Sullivan

• It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

  Author: Harry Sullivan

• College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

  Author: Joseph Story

• If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

  Author: Bram Stoker

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's not worth working with them!

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• 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.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

  Author: George Stephanopoulos

• It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

  Author: Richard Steele

• My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

  Author: Howard Staunton

• Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.

  Author: Edwin Starr

• I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

  Author: Pete Stark

• Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

  Author: Pete Stark

• When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

  Author: Charles Stanley

• But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

  Author: Ronnie Spector

• I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

  Author: Sissy Spacek

• In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

  Author: Brett Somers

• An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!

  Author: Marla Sokoloff

• A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

  Author: Ralph Sockman

• When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

  Author: Tony Snow

• The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

  Author: Margaret Smith

• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  Author: L. Smith

• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  Author: L. Smith

• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  Author: Kate Smith

• It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

  Author: Huston Smith

• It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

  Author: Yakov Smirnoff

• The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.

  Author: B. Skinner

• The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.

  Author: Paul Simon

• I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

  Author: Paul Simon

• I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.

  Author: Alicia Silverstone

• The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

  Author: James Shirley

• Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

  Author: Allan Sherman

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  Author: Barbara Sher

• I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

  Author: Sam Shepard

• Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better.

  Author: Billy Sheehan

• Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

  Author: George Shaw

• The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

  Author: George Shaw

• I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

  Author: Silvan Shalom

• The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

  Author: Merle Shain

• There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

  Author: Jeanne Shaheen

• I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.

  Author: Ted Shackelford

• There are three rape scenes that I've had to act in, and none of them have gotten to film. I don't think it's something that should be promoted in any way.

  Author: Joan Severance

• Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

  Author: Andres Serrano

• Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

  Author: Frank Serpico

• In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

  Author: William Scott

• When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

  Author: Jill Scott

• It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

  Author: Izabella Scorupco

• You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

  Author: David Schwartz

• How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

  Author: David Schwartz

• Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

  Author: Franz Schubert

• And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

  Author: John Sayles

• Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

  Author: Evan Sayet

• It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

  Author: Jim Saxton

• I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

  Author: Siegfried Sassoon

• We must act out passion before we can feel it.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

  Author: Peter Sarsgaard

• The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

  Author: Nathalie Sarraute

• To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

  Author: George Santayana

• A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

  Author: Esa-Pekka Salonen

• Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

  Author: Sallust

• The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.

  Author: Walter Salles

• They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

  Author: J. Salinger

• While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

  Author: Mark Rydell

• To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

  Author: Samuel Rutherford

• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  Author: Bayard Rustin

• We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

  Author: Dora Russell

• Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  Author: Salman Rushdie

• It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.

  Author: Todd Rundgren

• Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.

  Author: Warren Rudman

• 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.

  Author: Jerry Rubin

• I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.

  Author: Kelly Rowland

• I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

  Author: Karl Rove

• However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

  Author: Jean Rousseau

• I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

  Author: Tim Roth

• I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

  Author: Joseph Rotblat

• I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

  Author: Diana Ross

• And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!

  Author: Julius Rosenberg

• Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

  Author: Ned Rorem

• It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.

  Author: Stephen Root

• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

  Author: Mick Ronson

• The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

  Author: John Robinson

• You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

  Author: Frederick Robertson

• I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

  Author: Julia Roberts

• Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

  Author: Jane Roberts

• We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.

  Author: Robert Ripley

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  Author: Rainer Rilke

• I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

  Author: Rihanna

• I always wanted to act.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

  Author: Michael Richards

• I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

  Author: Little Richard

• But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.

  Author: Little Richard

• We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

  Author: Burt Reynolds

• Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

  Author: Jean Renoir

• We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

  Author: Janet Reno

• The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

  Author: Keanu Reeves

• Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

  Author: Scott Reed

• I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

  Author: Lou Reed

• In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

  Author: John Reed

• Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

  Author: John Redmond

• I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.

  Author: Stephen Rea

• The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

  Author: Joseph Ratzinger

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

  Author: James Randi

• We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

  Author: Colin Quinn

• There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

  Author: Robert Quillen

• After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

  Author: Raymond Queneau

• 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.

  Author: Pythagoras

• One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

  Author: Charley Pride

• The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

  Author: Helen Prejean

• Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

  Author: Colin Powell

• The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

  Author: Dennis Potter

• The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

  Author: Dennis Potter

• The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

  Author: Jon Porter

• Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

  Author: Jon Porter

• Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

  Author: Sarah Polley

• If they don't think, people act senselessly.

  Author: Andrei Platonov

• What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

  Author: Andrei Platonov

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