#acting

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#acting

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#insurgent #veronica-roth #acting

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#power #timing #waiting #acting

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #acting

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#christianity #acting

Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#tris #acting

Dad, she's just going to freak. And probably come here and get me, and then you guys will start yelling at each other, and I'll have to act out by wearing lots of eyeliner and doing the drugs ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#acting

good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws ↗

— Plato

#people #acting

I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#listening #pretending #acting

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#quantum-physics #schrodinger-s-cat #wisdom #acting