Quotes of: Acting Keyword

Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption.

Sleeping Partners

It's the story of the City of Women; of how it came to be, how it flourished, and how it was destroyed by a reckless and irrevocable act of mercy.

The Steel Seraglio

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

The Twelve Gifts of Birth

Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

The Tenth Circle

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

Tales from Earthsea

I knew it, but I knew you didn’t know I knew it, so I knew to not let you know I knew it by acting like I didn’t know it.

This Book Title is Invisible

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

Othello

Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.

Other People's Weddings

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Politics

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.

The Passage of Power

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

The Poetics of Space

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

The Queen of the Tearling

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animals Origins of Property and Nations

After work, to unwind, I stand in the yard and act like a windmill. Plus, I never know when love will blow my way.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Right now is the youngest I’ll ever be, so I suppose I’d better act immature while I still can.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

To take another person’s life for personal gain is the most selfish act imaginable. Especially when that other person is your clone.

This Book is Not FOR SALE