2468 Act Quotes for You to Enjoy

A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it. Roger B. Taney

Justice Mistake Nation Willing Individual Supposed Principles Does Ready Always Repair Oversight Sovereignty Act Injury

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true. Roger Ebert

You Sense Something True Makes Act

The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society. Rosa Luxemburg

History Constitution Legal Political Revolution Nothing Creation Society Classes Constitutional Vegetation Existing Legislation The History Of While Act Product Expression

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with. Samuel Richardson

People Ought Angels Like Deal Act Who

Britain has a Terrorism Act, which has within it a portion called Schedule 7, which is quite unique. What it is is it gives officials the ability to detain people at the border as they go in or out or even transit through the country. Sarah Harrison

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me. Shirley MacLaine

Me Together Made Living Think Impact Potential Know Couple Huge Up Friends Huge Impact Get Middle Act Twenties Even Early

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy. Simon Sinek

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Simone Weil

Others Ourselves Degradation Hurtful Bear Which Act

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously. Sukarno

We have all met people that act 'old' or think a number makes them old, and I truly don't believe that is the case. If you have a good attitude toward aging, and you do what you can to live healthy and take care of yourself, I don't think the number matters. Tabatha Coffey

Attitude Good You Yourself People Old Care Met Healthy Matters Live Believe Think Case Take Take Care Toward Makes Truly Them Act Good Attitude Aging Number

It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination. Tariq Ramadan

Market Highest Importance Equal Employment Access Equitable Provide Governments Discrimination Labour Establish Racial Should Act Standards

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. Thomas Mann

Positive Simple Meet Triumph More Poised Adverse Adverse Conditions Conditions Than Gracefully Endurance Against Act Aggression Fatality

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. Tony Robbins

Will Our Consistently Truly Accurate Whether Act View Who

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. Veronica Franco

Death Truth You Fight Women Speak Will Example First Cowardice Setting Would Would-Be Follow Able Be The First Until Prove Decide Them Realized Should Act Many Amongst Resides

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays. Vivien Leigh

Playwright More Greater Just Act Therefore Satisfying Interpreter Thinks Plays

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. William Bennett

Reward Own Kind Often Act Compassionate

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. William James

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. Zachary Taylor

Foe Would Would-Be Magnanimity Towards Judicious Act

If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it. Douglas Coupland

Kindness You Impulse Act

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. Salman Rushdie

Creation Books Entirely Rational Authors Act Choose Conscious

A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act. James Forman, Jr.

Man Rights Generation Voting Father Black Prison Late I Was Born Civil Born Civil Rights Civil Rights Act My Generation More Lifetime 1960s Fair Voting Rights Likely Housing Go His Than After Then Act Twice

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman

Memory Skin Poetry Razor Line Ceases Act

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