Action Quotes
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If an action ... involves little profit but much righteousness, do it.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.
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The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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Our eyes are always flashing sudden flicks of different pictures to our brains, yet none of that saccadic action leads to any sense of change or motion in the world; each thing reposes calmly in its 'place'! ...What makes us such innate Copernicans?
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
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I love horror, sci-fi and action, or I wouldn't make these kinds of movies, but those designations are Trojan horses to make these personal comedies.
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I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
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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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There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!
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You cannot get involved in debate on 'MOTD'. You can do it on Sky because they've got hours and hours. We've got a couple of minutes. It's a very disciplined show. Our primary purpose is to show the action, and the analysis is very secondary. We have lots of people who would prefer no analysis. We have lots of people who would prefer more analysis.
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The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
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Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.
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Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.
