If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal

Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
George W. Bush

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.
Alan Watts

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
James A. Baldwin

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James A. Baldwin

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke

We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard Shaw

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles

Criticize the act, not the person.
Mary Kay Ash

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
Jack Nicholson

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus