Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.
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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
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I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
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The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.
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If an action ... involves little profit but much righteousness, do it.
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What is needed now is action, not hopelessness
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Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.
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I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.
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The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.
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Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world.
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Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.
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As governor, I will work to ensure the Department of Environmental Protection issues the Climate Action Plan and will seek to implement the plan's recommendations.
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'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
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I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.
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The fans will talk about whatever. But when you're not doing your best, you're losing, you can't let all that get to your head. You focus and try to play hard. The fans, they will respect you for that.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
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I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.
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True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
