Quotes of: Acting-ability Keyword

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

Phenomenology of Perception

I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.

Paranoid Park

It is not so much the grand dramas of our lives that transform us as it is the tiny one-acts we produce in between.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

The Queen of Everything

What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?' 'Life is a play, isn't it?

Remalna's Children

Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill. As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.

Think Great: Be Great: Beautiful Quotes

We made love like a slice of French toast trying to act like an English muffin.

The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

The Time Traveler's Wife

You will do great and terrible things, Bethany Rudan. Just make sure you know the difference before you choose to act. And look to the boy, the tracker. He anchors you.

Time Walker

In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

There is something beautiful about watching two people lovingly act silly together; behaving as though no one else existed.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Why are babies allowed to cry when they wake up, but adults crying when they wake is frowned upon? Babies are permitted to act like assholes whenever they feel like it and no one blinks...

Uganda Be Kidding Me

...every harsh word spoken, every such act or even thought doesn’t just disappear - it hangs around somewhere in totality and some day it boomerangs to haunt us.

The Uncommon Memories of Zeenat Qureishi

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Vanishing Acts

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

Vanishing Acts

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

Vanishing Acts

Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn't hesitate

Viola in Reel Life

Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life.

A Woman's Guide to Making Right Choices

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective.

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