Quotes About Act

Joylyn was pretty sure that was the definition of being brave. That if you weren't scared, then there was no courage in the act.

Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead.

To tell the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.

The blameless couple annoyed Alice, ignorant as they were of John Crimmins's whereabouts, unknowing of Tommy or his end, blithely incurious about the charred plot of land to the south. Should not sickening cruelty leave its impressions upon the surroundings? Should not a repulsive act taint the very air?

The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it." ~

Emotions are not blind, non-rational forces which can overcome rational resolve; they are themselves a kind of reason which the person determines to act on.

Miss Wynter, I think you should be the evil queen," Harriet said. "There's an evil queen?" Daniel echoed. With obvious delight. "Of course," Harriet replied. "Every good play has an evil queen." Frances actually raised her hand. "And a un—" "Don't say it," Elizabeth growled. Frances crossed her eyes, put her knife to her forehead in an approximation of a horn, and neighed.

Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

I'd like to act in Punjabi films and do some great roles instead of just dance sequences.

Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals who are and those who are not considered as members.

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

We are almost all, my good General, of a nature so pitifully plastic, that we act from circumstance, and are fashioned by situation.

Lietas j?sauc ?stajos v?rdos: sk?psts reiz?m ir skaist?ks par aktu.

Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either censure or approval . . .There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God's voice to the inner man.

It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act.