There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.
With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.
Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.
Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.
The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself. Selection, order, the lettering you used for the track list, how much technical detail you went into, whether or not you added artwork or offered only artwork and no track list at all, these choices were as codified as a Victorian bouquet.
I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you see is what you get.
. . . never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.
Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?
Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!
What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!
We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans alike. . . . We voted for the people who voted for it, and then voted for the people who reauthorized it, then voted for the people who re-re-authorize d it.
Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.
Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.
We who must die demand a miracle. How could the Eternal do a temporal act, The Infinite become a finite fact? Nothing can save us that is possible: We who must die demand a miracle.
Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.
Trump keeps the spotlight on himself with one act after another, assuming correctly that yesterday's antics will be swept aside by today's.
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.