Action Quotes

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I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll… — Garth Brooks
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. — Colleen Atwood
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action. — E. V. Lucas
He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day… — Christopher Hitchens
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages;… — Josiah Johnson Hawes
... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women seem to become… — John Andreas Widtsoe
I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected; the… — Neil Gaiman
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class… — Camille Paglia
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of… — Alexander Hamilton
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis,… — Frederic Bastiat
If one has got power, one must manifest it in action. — Swami Vivekananda
The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of the Spirit. The… — Christopher Dawson
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the… — Walter Ciszek
I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only… — Richard Chamberlain
It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this… — Diane Kruger
I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action. — David Ginola
The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it… — Allyson Schwartz
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions. — Albert Camus
Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being,… — Thomas Merton
The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought… — Rudolf Virchow
In the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national… — Neville Chamberlain
There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported… — Barney Frank
I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a… — John W. Snow

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