For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
Aeschylus

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
Leonardo DiCaprio

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

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals

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

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.
Jimmy Buffett

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Katharine Hepburn

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
John Updike

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
John Stuart Mill

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart Mill

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Henry Ellis

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm

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

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell

Men often act knowingly against their interest.
David Hume