act Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about act.
“The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.”
- Michael K. Simpson
“To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.”
- Daisaku Ikeda
“When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.”
- Katharine Hepburn
“Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.”
- Bill Cosby
“The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.”
- Nagarjuna
“Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.”
- Rachel Hunter
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.”
- Anatole France
“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
- Paulo Coelho
“Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.”
- John Sununu