Tony Blair Quotes

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Tony Blair

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• Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Time
  • Action
  • Wish

• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
  • Long
  • Action
  • Christian

• If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Action
  • Drama

• Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Action

• Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Action

• 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

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Action
  • Religious
  • Look

• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Action
  • Government
  • Down

• What are the next steps in the war against terrorism? And beyond immediate next steps, what is the longer-range plan of action? And finally, what should be done to deal with root causes of this threat?

  

  Al Gore
  • Done
  • War
  • Action

• It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Believe
  • Action

• Thus the social position of women is in this respect very similar to that of philosophers and of the working classes. And we now see why these three elements should be united. It is their combined action which constitutes the moral or modifying force of society.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Women
  • Why
  • Society

• One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Work
  • Live
  • Action

• I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Work
  • Done
  • Fun

• In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

  

  Laurie R. King
  • Action

• Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

  

  Pericles
  • People
  • Action

• Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • People
  • Music
  • Experience

• The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions of our time: Can a movie maintain the dramatic integrity of a theme park ride?

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Time
  • Important
  • Movie

• I think, as a choreographer and an action designer, you're constantly giving your characters problems to overcome. That's what makes it fun for choreography. But it also makes it fun for the audience to see them solve those puzzles and how they are as a human being.

  

  David Leitch
  • Fun
  • Giving
  • Action

• If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

  

  Nevil Shute
  • Character
  • Decision
  • Habit

• Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

  

  David J. Schwartz
  • Action
  • Dreams
  • Planning

• Usually, you see this play as a guy who can't make up his mind, but our version is more of a revenge thriller than a man who is pontificating what he should do next. I've never seen a 'Hamlet' this big, this exciting, with this many cast members; it's quite a spectacle.

  

  David Denman
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Guy

• Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

  

  William McDonough
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Energy

• Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Action
  • Danger
  • Greater