Isaac Newton Quotes

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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• Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Action
  • Baseball
  • Slow

• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Take

• From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

  

  Rain
  • Action
  • Star
  • Hero

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Dream
  • Action

• In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Important
  • Action
  • Doing

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Action
  • Always
  • Human

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
  • Movie

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Action

• I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Form
  • Opposed
  • Any

• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Action
  • Pain

• You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Character
  • Action
  • Too Much

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
  • Lost

• All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Energy
  • Action
  • Lying

• Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Art
  • Human

• India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Help
  • Words

• Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Matters
  • Seek

• I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildren, to have to apologise for working for Ford Motor Company. In fact, I want the opposite. I want them to look and say, 'What a difference we made!'

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Want
  • Company
  • Employees

• To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Action
  • Reaction
  • Opposed