"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

Act, Man, Reason, Temper

20

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

Exlpore more Act quotes

"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Act,

"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Act, Living, Meaning

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Act, Fashion, Joy, Motherhood

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Act, Quotation, Words

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

Act, Evening, Night, Sleep

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

Henry Miller, American Author

Act, Impulses

"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

Henry Miller, American Author

Act, Actor, Beginning, Man

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Act, Mind, Reflection, Thinking

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Act, Books, Creation

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Act, Misery, Will

Explore more quotes by Orson Welles

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

Time

"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."

Politics

"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."

Pretty

"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong."

Artist

"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."

Success

"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."

Age

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."

Woman

20

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Act quotes

"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

Explore more quotes by Orson Welles

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."

"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."

"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong."

"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."

"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."

"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck."

"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."

"I have an unfortunate personality."