In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.
After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.
I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Diana Ross saw me on Merv Griffin and hired me to be her opening act.
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
