Acts Quotes

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive.

How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.