Quotes About Act

Cicero calls it the most horrendous torture.' So hideous was the act of crucifixion upon a man that he also writes that the very word `cross' should be far removed not only from the person of a Roman citizen but from his thoughts, his eyes and his ears.

Clarity, especially in poetry, requires conceiving of your work as a collaborative act of imagination with the audience, thus affording them the deepest respect.

One does not, I think, kill oneself without a definite desire to do so. It is hardly ever an act to which a man must key himself up; it is a temptation which he must struggle against.

Here there is nothing but love and beauty. Ugh! it is like sitting for all eternity at the first act of a fashionable play, before the complications begin.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

I am an engineer by profession, but I knew I wanted to act. My parents always encouraged me, and when my father shifted to Mumbai for work for a brief while, I came along.

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

The Interest Rate Reduction Act takes a first step toward providing critical stability by eliminating the threat of an immediate interest rate increase, while making clear the need to move toward a long-term solution that serves the best interests of taxpayers and borrowers.

In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

I have introduced legislation - with other senators from both parties, like Bob Corker and Bob Menendez and Joe Manchin - called the 'Countering the Iranian Threats Act', specifically to clamp down on a lot of Iran's nefarious activity throughout the region.

John Hughes and his movie 'The Breakfast Club' gave us above all the thrilling opportunity that everyone who starts a band dreams of. The opportunity that is of aggregating the kind of success that enables an act to go through the door and into what is considered to be 'The Big League.'

I love live theatre, it's always thrilling and exciting.

Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.

Interestingly enough, we found, the habit of regularly expressing our gratitude and our concerns to God actually made us more grateful and more determined to act generously on behalf of others. I think that's because regular prayer helps cultivate awareness, and awareness is key to both gratitude and generosity. We must learn how to nourish a heart that is keenly aware both of God's abundance as it comes to us and the needs of the world around us.

What's the work for emotion in our life? I'll say emotion gives the motion in life. If you don't have emotion, then you will act like robot. You can't feel anything. But we must feel everything from our mind. If any act doesn't touch our mind then how could we live?

I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The dance of the intellect, the dance of wild imagination, illuminates what cannot otherwise be known.

Heaven is a dream of Disneyland for those unable to act here on Earth.

of some ritual act by Eannatum, corresponding, for example, to the sending of doves in some of the

Rydra, when I look at the night and stars, it is only a passive act, but you are active even watching, and halo the stars with more luminous flame.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Life is short. You've got to take what you can while you can.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.