Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

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• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Very
  • Shy
  • Modest

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

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Like

• I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Try
  • Modest
  • Frivolous

• 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

• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Action
  • Style
  • Eye

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Think

• Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Time
  • Women
  • She

• Whenever life's at a standstill, I need some action.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Action
  • Need

• By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

  

  Mahavira
  • Man
  • Action
  • Speech

• You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Action
  • Goals

• If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Action
  • Understanding
  • Appreciation

• Without bolder action, our children won't have time to debate the existence of climate change. They'll be busy dealing with its effects: more environmental disasters, more economic disruptions, waves of climate refugees seeking sanctuary.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Action

• If an action ... involves little profit but much righteousness, do it.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Action

• Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Action

• Give encouragement (the incentive to action) - you will have courage and be encouraged.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Action
  • Courage

• I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.

  

  Dave Filoni
  • Done
  • Action
  • Comedy

• Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Action
  • Activism
  • Mistrust

• The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Building

• The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Heart
  • Memories

• Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

  

  Horace
  • Action
  • Modest