People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon

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

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To love is to act.
Victor Hugo

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo

Act quickly, think slowly.
Germaine Greer

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.
Rahm Emanuel

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers

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

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
Carter G. Woodson

Act, and God will act.
Joan of Arc

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

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater

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

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
Jacques Yves Cousteau