#act

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. ↗

— Herbert Read

#belief #characteristic #despair #political #positive

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work. ↗

— Marion Ross

#contract #ended #film #film work #go

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. ↗

— Charles Reade

#character #destiny #habit #reap #sow

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#change #character #constitution #destroy #doctrines

A lot of what acting is paying attention. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#attention #lot #paying

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#going #i #know #politically #time

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#ahead #good #i #lay #life

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#feminine #gets #i #i think #more

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#bureau #disappear #earth #eternal #eternal life