It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ambrose Bierce

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

- Alice Walker

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.

- Alice Cooper

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

- Alfred North Whitehead

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

- Alexis Carrel

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

- Alexander Pope

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

- Alexander Pope

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

- Alexander Hamilton

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

- Alan Watts

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

- Al Sharpton

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

- Akshay Kumar

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

- Aeschylus

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

- Adam Sandler

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

- Abraham Lincoln

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

- Abraham Lincoln

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

- Abraham Lincoln

I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.

- Aaron Sorkin