Georges Clemenceau Quotes

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Georges Clemenceau

• Action
• Breathe
• Convinced

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Light
  • Action

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

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Take

• I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Action
  • Star
  • Actor

• Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.

  

  Banks
  • Live
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• 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

• As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Life
  • World
  • Think

• Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Action
  • Justice

• Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Job
  • Black

• As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • May
  • Think
  • Action

• When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Work
  • Movie

• Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Law
  • Air
  • Breathe

• It was wonderful playing a young queen with so much power. I think it will be good for young women to see a strong woman of action who is also smart and a leader.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• It seems to me that any action that arbitrarily limits the citizen's access to sight, sound and print, upon which opinion can be based, is, in the true sense of the phrase, un-American.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • American
  • True
  • Action

• As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • Action
  • Road

• I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Action

• It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.

  

  Joe Taslim
  • Good
  • Action

• You ever love somebody so much You can barely breathe When you’re with them

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Breathe

• That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Action
  • Fantasy
  • Figure

• I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Life
  • Dying

• ...Some things...arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Mysterious
  • Arrive
  • Hour

• The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out of those areas. The critical examination of whiteness, academic and not, simply involves the effort to break through the illusion that whiteness is natural, biological, normal, and not crying out for explanation.

  

  David Roediger
  • Working
  • Natural
  • Explanation

• A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

  

  Georges Clemenceau
  • Action
  • Breathe
  • Convinced