Quotes About Act

Quain solía argumentar que los lectores eran una especie ya extinta. 'No hay europeo' (razonaba) 'que no sea un escritor, en potencia o en acto.' Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain

T]he aesthetic act cannot be carried out without some element of astonishment, and that to be astonished by rote is difficult.

Whatsoever one man does, it is as though all men did it. That is why it is not unfair that a single act of disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; that is why it is not unfair that a single Jew's crucifixion should be enough to save it.

Quain solía argumentar que los lectores eran una especie ya extinta. «No hay europeo -razonaba-que no sea un escritor, en potencia o en acto.» Afirmaba también que de las diversas felicidades que puede ministrar la literatura, la más alta era la invención.

El pensamiento más fugaz obedece a un dibujo invisible y puede coronar, o inaugurar, una forma secreta. Sé de quienes obraban el mal para que en los siglos futuros resultara el bien, o hubiera resultado en los ya pretéritos... Encarados así, todos nuestros actos son justos, pero también son indiferentes. No hay méritos morales o intelectuales.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

La générosité universelle est une langue sans mots, une vue sans vision, un corps sans acte, une preuve sans argumentation, c'est une source qui vient de la mer et des mystères de la mer.

The Mutiny Act of 1807 finally settled the legal status of Afro-British soldiers by effectively emancipating all slaves in British military service.

Godess of peace can walk only in the company of god of war and that every great act of peace must be protected and assisted by force So, we must be in living realization of the duty of each man to sacrifice his life at all times so that his country might live.....

Great are the tasks of the National Government in the sphere of economic life. Here all action shall be governed by one law: the Volk does not live for the economy, and the economy does not exist for capital, but capital serves the economy and the economy serves the Volk! Policy statement on the Enabling Act to the Reichstag Berlin, March 23, 1933

Re-vision—the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction—is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

I never asked you to explain that act of violence what dazed me was our ignorance of our will to hurt each other.

We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern is simple but not easy to follow. We are so easily distracted.

When you're talking about peasants and children - obviously I've got some experience dealing with children - when you deal with children they act out and the lash out.

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.

Early AI was mainly based on logic. You're trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You're trying to make computers that can perceive and act and adapt like animals.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

I always wanted to perform.