Action Quotations | Page 2

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

It's all about the sensuality of movement, every movement you make. That's why I love doing action movies. It's all about movement, dance - even if you're hitting someone in the face. You've got to sell it all with great passion. There's a narrative to the body. It's exactly the same as dance.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.

I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in uniform killed and wounded in action in the war by a factor of 20 to 1.

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...

The average action game doesn't much traffic in thematic grandiosity, but the BioShock games are different.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

When the President makes something a priority, we see action

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

I would love to get into feature films; I'm willing to do an action flick, I'm willing to do a romantic comedy.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films made within a budget are wrong. But when audiences come to see my film with their families, I guess they are spending at least 10 per cent of their monthly income. I don't want to cheat them.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

I always feel at home doing a little bit of action.

'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.