To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.

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

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

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

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

The act of littering annoys me more than anything, particularly drivers who throw stuff out of the car window.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.

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