Quotes About Act

The world is a stage. Life is an act. Just a balancing act.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Men are appalling.. We never really grow up, well not on the inside. It's all just an act. Don't ever trust men, we're dreadful. Enjoy us, use us, abuse us, but never trust us." - HAM

I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender.

When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they proceed to the reasons for that act, they are content with the merest appearance, ordinarily founded upon one of those maxims of common-place psychology which are neither more nor less true than their opposites.

Well, that shoots the morning." As I heard myself saying these familiar words, I was struck by their strangeness. Why would an act of charity shoot my morning? Isn't growing in love what life is all about? Yes, but the purpose of life often gets in the way of my agenda!

This was because, in the most genuine exhaustion, there is, especially in neurotic people, an element that depends upon attracting their attention and is kept going only by an act of memory. We at once feel tired as soon as we are afraid of feeling tired, and, to throw off our fatigue, it suffices us to forget about it.

The will is the sovereign faculty and power of the soul; whatever principle acts in it and determines it, that hath the rule. Notwithstanding

Now, with the Transparency Act, the government has set out to reveal wrongdoing by chiefs, not the Department. There is nothing wrong with the act except the context, the attitude and the political purpose.

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.

It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.

When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

Life is not a rehearsal. Each day is new show. No repeat, not rewind, not retake. So give your best shot in all your acts. As the show goes on and on.

Say what you need to saybefore its too late because life is unpredictable

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.

I can't do this anymore. Pretend that everything's great. Act like there's nothing to hate. Wipe away every tear. Run away from my fears. Talk like everything's okay. Live like there's nothing wrong with today.

It melted my heart that the Verdurins should have sent to meet us at the station. I said as much to the Princess, who seemed to think that I was greatly exaggerating so simple an act of courtesy. I know that she admitted subsequently to Cottard that she found me very enthusiastic; he replied that I was too emotional, required sedatives and ought to take to knitting.