Quotes About Act

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

Suicide is often an act of vitality, and even — if it is not the result of neurosis — the act of a person who is powerfully attached to life.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

To refrigerate a clock was an extremely violent act, not one I could explain to anyone.

the nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;

The changing thing begins with only the potential to change, but it needs to be acted on by other things outside if that potential is to be made actual. Otherwise it cannot change.

You're only a success at the moment you perform a successful act.

He started keeping a journal — had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged—where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

There is no you, Maria, any more than there is a me. There is only this way that we have established over the months of performing together, and what it is congruent with isn't ourselves but past performances--we're has-beens at heart, routinely trotting out the old, old act.

This shit is for amateurs. The whole world's a fucking drag show. Look at them, they are all in costume.

And love, I learned, is a constant act of creation, just as creation is almost always an act of love.

We will get home full of others people shame. What are we saying is what we did see. And what did we do? We acted blind and we moved on. That is not the gospel.

It was cool to see reading become such a transparent act–it was as if her face had a different expression for each punctuation mark, and when there was dialogue you could see her actually listening to it in her head.

El deseo debe estar presente para que tenga lugar el acto de dar.