However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Thomas Huxley

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

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.
Charles Stanley

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
Neale Donald Walsch

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
Tony Blair

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Ezra Pound

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
Baltasar Gracian

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Arthur Miller

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
Henry A. Wallace