All Quotes

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
‐‐ Isaac Watts

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
‐‐ Alphonsus Liguori

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
‐‐ Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.
‐‐ Alma Gluck

Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.
‐‐ John Lescroart

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
‐‐ Hesiod

Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
‐‐ George Ayittey

Across all religions in the United States, people 18-30 are more spiritual than before, but they don't like organized religion. What sets Birthright apart is that no one's hitting on you to be Jewish in any particular way, and you can define Jewish any way you want.
‐‐ Charles Bronfman

Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.
‐‐ George R. Roberts

Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.
‐‐ Megan Smith

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'
‐‐ Peter York

Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
‐‐ Hugo Weaving

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
‐‐ Amos Lee

Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.
‐‐ Trevor Phillips

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
‐‐ Barry Eichengreen

Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.
‐‐ John Salazar

Across the globe, regardless of nationality or financial status, there is a common dream every mother has for her children - for them to live full, healthy and productive lives. As a mother, I share that dream for my children.
‐‐ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.
‐‐ Lynn Schusterman

Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.
‐‐ Mimi Kennedy

Across the years, in spite of everything I knew, my passion endured. Newspapers and magazines paid me to cover fights when I'd have paid my own way.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

Act, and God will act.
‐‐ Joan of Arc

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
‐‐ Robert Sternberg

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
‐‐ St. Jerome

Act because you love to act.
‐‐ Mae Whitman

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
‐‐ Dorothea Brande

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
‐‐ Dan Millman

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
‐‐ Christopher Morley

Act quickly, think slowly.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
‐‐ Hans Jonas

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant

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

ACT UP was trying to explain to Americans that AIDS could affect all of us: that health care that ended once your disease was expensive could affect more than gay men with HIV or AIDS. We were trying to tell them about the future - a future they didn't yet see and would be forced to accept if they failed to act.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
‐‐ Michael Korda

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

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
‐‐ George Pierce Baker

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.
‐‐ Max Irons

Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.
‐‐ Enrique Pena Nieto

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
‐‐ Cathy Rigby

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
‐‐ Cameron Diaz

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
‐‐ Zoe Kravitz

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.
‐‐ Josephine de La Baume

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.
‐‐ Elle Macpherson