The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood! – Robert Peel
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn’t? – Sebastian Junger
Compliance with the Stop Online Piracy Act would require huge overhead spending by Internet companies for staff and technologies dedicated to monitoring users and censoring any infringing material from being posted or transmitted. – Rebecca MacKinnon
After my 1985 appearance on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,’ I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom. – Roseanne Barr
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical. – Robert Bourassa
If the auto companies were free agents, they would act to break the fuel monopoly that is so damaging to their own interests and those of their customers. But they are not, and so they won’t. – Robert Zubrin
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. – Peter Mandelson
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. – Ronald Reagan
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama. – Ralph Adams Cram
It’s not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It’s more like you blurt something out and then analyze it. – Robert Motherwell
I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies – the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff. – Piper Laurie
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious. – Ron Suskind
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there’s a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system. – Ralph Fiennes
Catalyzed by the Recovery Act, adoption of electronic health records is increasing dramatically. – Todd Park
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate. – Susanna Kearsley
Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won’t get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn’t until the second act. – Simon Pegg
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment. – Samuel Alexander
The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel! – Yahya Jammeh
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea. – Scott Reed