Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie Ten Boom

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Grover Cleveland

But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.
Freddie Mercury

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

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
Jean Toomer

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.
Gary Ryan Blair

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Jim Elliot

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
Horace Mann

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Davy Crockett

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Duke Ellington

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
Thor Heyerdahl

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!
Sigourney Weaver

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
Alexis Carrel

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
Dane Cook

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
W. Somerset Maugham

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
Francis Quarles