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Quotes About Act

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.
~ Rupert Murdoch
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
~ Samuel Alexander
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
~ Marva Collins
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.
~ Debbie Ford
Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.
~ Ann Voskamp
Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.
~ Indro Montanelli
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
~ D.T. Suzuki
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
~ Sidney Blumenthal
The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.
~ Siri Hustvedt
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
~ Albert Camus
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
I really love music but I've always wanted to act.
~ Miranda Cosgrove
Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.
~ Deepak Chopra
I would love to be on Broadway!
~ Emily Blunt
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
~ George Bernard Shaw
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
~ Kathy Acker
I love theater. Like, every time I go to New York, I see a play.
~ Miranda Cosgrove
Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.
~ Hugh Prather
I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.
~ Jimmy Smits
At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a meaningless act), but given to nothing, in its form of nothing, the form of something.
~ Maurice Blanchot