Quotes of: Political-act Keyword

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

William Bennett

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

Chris Pine

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.

James Garner

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

Khaled Hosseini

My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.

Maria Valverde

Acting is perception, and as long as I'm honest with myself in my work, someone will appreciate it.

Riley Smith

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

City at the End of Time

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Terry Eagleton

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

Glenn Greenwald

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

David Harvey

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

Edmund S. Muskie

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Douglas Sirk

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Gustave Flaubert

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Konrad Adenauer

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Roger Stone

It's not polite to ask if a man has a big salami in his pants, okay?

Shattered

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

On Liberty

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

Dick Murphy

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

Maynard Jackson