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Quotes About Act

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.
~ Michele Cassou
This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?
~ Nicholas Stern
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
~ Fidel Castro
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.
~ Andrew Jackson
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.
~ Simone Weil
This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.
~ Ramsey Clark
The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.
~ Kofi Annan
It is hard to imagine a more perfect crime than one in which the weapon disappears and the act itself can unfold almost unnoticeably.
~ Susan Orlean
He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.
~ Susanna Clarke
Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
~ Susanna Kaysen
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
~ Susanna Kaysen
The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.
~ Suzanne Collins
So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair. Here's what's strange. The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I am free to act as desperately as I wish.
~ Suzanne Collins
I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.
~ Suzanne Collins
If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.
~ Suzanne Collins
is play my part. Sometimes I listen to them and
~ Suzanne Collins
Oh, right, I'm supposed to be pregnant, I think. While I'm trying to think what that means and how I should act, maybe throw up or something, Finnick has positioned himself at the edge of the water.
~ Suzanne Collins
Being a founder is about being so driven to distraction by the world that you want to put something new in it. It's an act of creation, of irreverence, of defiance, of hope, and arguably one of narcissism.
~ Andy Dunn
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
~ Nicki Minaj
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
~ Barbara Deming
The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
~ Randy Neugebauer
The 'Protect America First Act' is critical to secure our Southern border, conserve American culture, and defend U.S. sovereignty.
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene