Act Quotes - page 2

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. (George Orwell)
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. View quote
Albert Camus
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso. View quote
Pablo Picasso
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. View quote
Aristotle
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. View quote
Bill Cosby
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. View quote
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. (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. View quote
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. (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
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
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