KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Act


Share this page on

Showing 401-410 of 1422 quotes in the topic Act

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

~Bayard Rustin

Topics: Achieved Act Another Brotherhood Brothers Build Desire Freedom Goal Human Human Freedom Men Must Society Then Towards Ultimate Ultimate Goal Which Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

~Bayard Rustin

Topics: Acknowledge Act Being Dignity Him His Human Human Being Individual Protest Protesting Refusal Society Very

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

~Bayard Rustin

Topics: Act Believe Conscience Conscription Degree Follow Freedom Inconsistent Merely Receives Right Truth Vocation War Which Wrong

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

~Bayard Rustin

Topics: Act Am Any Apart Body Conscription Entirely Hold Issue Military Military Training Opponent Part Politic Preparations Segregation Slavery Training Universal War I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

~Baz Luhrmann

Topics: Act Creativity Dissertation Filmmaking Great Know Me Mean Whole You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

~Bear Grylls

Topics: Act Appeal Awareness Come Develop Fast Me Plan React Resourceful Unpredictability Up Wild You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

~Beatrice Dalle

Topics: Act Actress Building Character Creating Invest Myself Other Role Terms Transform Way

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

~Beatrice Wood

Topics: Act Acting Because Become Else Fascinating Forget Life More Much Own Somebody Sorrow Than Think Though You Your I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

~Bebe Neuwirth

Topics: Act Am Anywhere Anywhere Else Because Been Bunch Dancer Else Just Just Because Mean Rather Since Sing Stage Than Things Where You I Am I Can

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Act Animals Attention Best Bodily Civilized Disguise Draws Eating Fact Forks Function Like Our Props Someone Stare Them Things Trapped You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Saint Augustine Ellen Degeneres Johnny Depp Mahatma Gandhi Margaret Mead Edgar Allan Poe Voltaire Tiger Woods

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - George Canning

1794 - Edward Everett

1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle

1862 - Charles Evans Hughes

1893 - Dean Acheson

1899 - Percy Julian

1908 - Leo Rosten

1913 - Oleg Cassini

1914 - Norman Mclaren

1919 - Hugh Carey

Birthdays on April 11th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Easter Fear Friendship Great Health History Music Nature