Act Quotes

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation.

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.

I don't think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It's kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.