Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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.
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.