Quotes About Act

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

I turned my face away. She should not act thus. She ought not to excite my imagination with such displays of heavenly innocence and happiness, nor awaken my heart from its slumbers, in which it dreams of the worthlessness of life!

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

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

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

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

As an instance of an intended act, Napoleon emancipated the Jews; as an instance of an unintended act which manifested the "cunning of reason," Napoleon created German nationalism by the very act of abolishing the Holy Roman Empire.

The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act.

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

Missional churches act faithfully and intentionally wherever God gives them opportunity.

But whatever the case may be, the arousal can only be reduced by two principal kinds of processes. These processes serve to make the act less problematic. Some processes affect the commitment to the act and reduce this commitment, and other processes reduce the total amount of dissonance by changing one or several existing cognitions or by producing new ones.

All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.

What can I give for Your knowledge Of when to expand And when to contract— This instructed, more academic college Of when to act?

Primer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Segundo acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Tercer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. ¿Cómo se llama la obra? "La marsellesa".

And thinkest thou, Viola, that in a mere act of science there is so much virtue? The commonest leech will tend the sick for his fee. Are prayers and blessings a less reward than gold?

A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea [The act is not criminal unless the intent is criminal].

Acta est fabula [The play is over].

In most instances, the central nervous system does not act directly on the outside world. The "interior" and the nervous system form an interactive complex; the "exterior" and the nervous system do not.