There are no guarantees in war, but you can make your own luck.

We have to look at every option, and we have to act quickly.

Writing is a kind of moral act.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

The act of creating is the act of giving.

I think the greatest thing is the act of creation.

The act of observation can change the observed phenomenon.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

Act confident, even when you’re not.

You have to act and act now.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didn’t fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

The Shark and the Flipper need to have the ability to recognize the signs, interpret them correctly, and then act without hesitation.

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

You act like you have a saggy diaper that leaks. Maybe you need to take your Shut-The-Hell-Up pill.

Mark Twain once said that true bravery isn’t the absence of fear, but the ability to act in the face of fear.

I love every single thing about acting. From craft service to set life, I love it. It’s the best job in the world

Acting is a dance between imagination and reality, and I savor every step

Acting is a journey of self-discovery; every role is a new chapter in understanding the human experience

But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the suffocating night.

Through my experience in my life, the number of people I ever come across most of them are only interested in one single thing, and that is actually how to escape at all times. But I don’t understand why people always want to run away or to escape from their things in life.

I feel when I come across this world, it develops more of a kind of mystery inside me

The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.

I simply fail to see how the act of legally formalizing a human relationship necessitates friends, family and co-workers upgrading the contents of their kitchen for them.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn’t know I knew.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn’t know I knew.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

I’d be unnatural if I weren’t enraged. And unnatural if I didn’t act on my rage.” “Perhaps you couldn’t help being angry.” the earl answered, “but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

It’s not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It’s not heading for the punchline, and also it’s not about scoring goals. It’s about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I’d end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I’d do plays.

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

I did act as a kid, but I quit when I was seventeen.

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him – but all this in peace – in abandonment

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

The first ‘D’ is to dream: dream big – not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second ‘D’ is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third ‘D’ is to do. ‘Do’ means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.

I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren’t a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say – which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselve

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it’s an act of complicit cruelty.

The act of reading is an act of empathy.

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

It is in Europe that we are born and bred to a single role. America is populated by second acts, encores and revivals.

I was very dirty; I was a very dirty comic. There was no way I would have gotten on TV with the act I had when I first started.

When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.

I’m all about showing people that I’m a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won’t grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, ‘Life is great.’

If you can put the question, ‘Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?’ then you are responsible.

There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child is in action and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone ‘happy’, no greater flattery than to grant him a ‘vein of melancholy’… This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

It is a bastard toIt is a bastard to miss people who may not even remember you miss people who may not even remember you

I only act from my heart

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one’s entire life, perhaps it would be ‘thoughtfulness.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Your actions must be just or full of pure intentions to provide His sacred service.

It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

Every moment in life is an act of faith

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.”

Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you’re acting.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

We must act.

It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

I shall not be deprived … of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown… The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

The very act of spending money can be expensive.

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who simply act like lions are stupid.

It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

We act on how we think, and never speak on how we feel

Quality is not an act, it is a habit

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they’ll still be there for you and act as if you’d never left!

The emancipation of women is not an act of charity, it’s a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph.

If we don’t act , we’re just standing still. and the act of standing still is the same as moving backwards when everyone else is in motion all around us, around the world

He clings to his solitude—to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it’s just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings

It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

The act of repeating erroneously the words of another

Act well your part; there all the honor lies.

Who acts in haste repents at leisure

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can’t or don’t do in my normal everyday life.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion

Learning is rebellion against tyrants; it is an act of liberty

It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.

There is no trouble in patience and there is no benefit in complaining.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

Growth takes place when the next step forward is subjectively more delightful, more joyous, more intrinsically satisfying than the previous gratification which we have become familiar and even bored.

Every person is, in part, ‘his own project’ and makes himself

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your year

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt

Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

The most efficient way for you to act with young people is to be a calming force.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change

Britney’s a real class act in terms of the way she handles herself in the media and embraces new artists. She’s always really kind, I’ve always admired that about her.

The hustles of the individuals in the Bronx are absolutely genuine.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

Even though we had the championship won, I just really wanted to keep my head down and see if we could learn and extract more from this beautiful car that’s a piece of art, i feel so happy with today, man.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.