Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.
Dave Barry

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew Carnegie

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron Paul

Think globally, act locally.
Paul McCartney

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
Fred Allen

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
David Letterman

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Mary Wollstonecraft

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.
Jim Carrey

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Alexander Hamilton

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.
Henry Miller

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Henry Miller

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Henry Miller

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Gilbert K. Chesterton