Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
J. C. Watts -
You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
Harlan Coben -
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
Dan Feuerriegel -
Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
Oliver North
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
Kate McKinnon -
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
Rachel McAdams -
With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
P. J. Harvey -
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 -
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
Vicente Fox
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Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
Naomi Wolf -
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 -
I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
Rachel Sklar -
When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.
Cara Delevingne -
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 -
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.
Maggie Q
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But instead of taking action, he cooked up a deal: freeze everything, don't throw out the corrupt officials, sit and do nothing, grasp onto the excuse of the elections.
Hanan Ashrawi -
Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.
Judy Parfitt -
Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.
Joel C. Rosenberg -
We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.
Ian Bogost -
Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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