Quotes About Act

People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.

the romantic, spendthrift moral act is ultimately the practical one—the practical, expendient, cozy-dog move is the one that comes to grief.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

A sycophant can never be made to feel shame of his degrading act and rather he would do the same more on being asked not to demean himself.

It is important to recognize each moment as "magical" and full of potential. Everything is magical, in the sense that it is wondrous and unique—every breath, every step, every stir of your soup. Every act is an act of magic. The magic is life itself.

Todo es mágico porque todo es maravilloso y único: cada respiración, cada paso, cada vuelta a la sopa. Cada acto es un acto de magia. La magia es la vida misma.

Now ends clearly differ from one another. For, firstly, in some cases the end is an act, while in others it is a material result beyond and besides that act. And, where the action involves any such end beyond itself, this end is of necessity better than is the act by which it is produced.

we got a hint of how the Espionage Act would be used as a club against people with anti-war beliefs

This peculiar method of work, paradoxically enough, saved me. Once I was sure that, as usual, I should be able to show the identity of all human destiny ... I found myself free to make the characters act, to create situations.

I very much treat my stage persona of Jinkx as a character I've created. Some drag artists do a look-based glamour act, and when they talk they're mostly just being themselves. In my case it's not Jinkx the drag queen, it's Jerrick Hoffer as Jinkx Monsoon.

I think basically, there are some bands and acts who feel the need to cultivate a persona or act a certain way or get quotes or whatever, because they feel like that helps them get promotion, and I feel like we're a band who have always just made music that we love and kept ourselves to ourselves and got on with it.

I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

It was an amazing experience, a dream come true, to sing and act alongside Prince and become dear friends with all the members of The Revolution while filming 'Purple Rain.'

I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

It's been hard to gain acceptance in England without the clown makeup because I wore the costume as part of my act for so long.

It is one of the great acts of American generosity and charity, what we are doing for these unaccompanied kids who are smuggled into our country or come across illegally.

The idea is to choose good roles and good movies. I don't want to act simply to remain in the industry, nor am I here to do glamour roles.

I'm a good actor.

There is always enough room for good actors.

El orden es una especie de impulso de repetición que establece de una vez para todas cuándo, dónde y cómo debe efectuarse determinado acto, de modo que en toda situación correspondiente nos ahorraremos las dudas e indecisiones

The detachment of the saint springs, as one might say, from the very core of reality; it completely excludes curiosity about the universe. This detachment is the highest form of participation. The detachment of the spectator is just the opposite, it is desertion, not only in thought but in act.

I'd be unnatural if I weren't enraged. And unnatural if I didn't act on my rage. Perhaps you couldn't help being angry. the earl answered, but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.