Quotes About Act

That spark of new creation, the new phrase that genuinely surprises, the act that bears the impress of a live consciousness: these are astonishingly rare. Human beings are everywhere overcome by rituals and dead language, by threadbare notions about what is real.

The act of dying is also one of the acts of life.

People think I have so much faith in myself, but I have none. I have no faith in myself, or in what I can do, and yet people think I can do anything I want. That's how I seem, but it's an illusion. It's an act, nothing more.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

The little fellow had been about to feel himself a conqueror, and he found himself held within two imprisoning arms, impotent. The expression of joy, anxiety, and hope, which had interested me so much faded from his face and left on it the stupid expression of the child who knows that others will act for him.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.

I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

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.

Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny.

BE BRAVE. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

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...

Cuando trabajamos para actuar en base no a nuestras emociones sino a nuestras elecciones, es cuando actuamos en Libertad

Cuando trabajamos para actuar en base no a nuestras emociones dijo a nuestras elecciones, es cuando actuamos en Libertad

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with.

Worship turns out to be the dangerous act of waking up to God and to the purposes of God in the world, and then living lives that actually show it.