Action Quotes

• Action is the antidote to despair.

  

  Joan Baez
  • Action

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

  

  Ellen Swallow Richards
  • Life
  • World
  • Understanding

• Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

  

  Sallust
  • Action
  • Powerful
  • Discord

• Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Men
  • Action

• I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Passion

• We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times. These are exceptional times.

  

  James Connolly
  • Believe
  • Action

• A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • People
  • America
  • Fighting

• I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

  

  Matthew Reilly
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Lost

• Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Art
  • Action
  • Drama

• I would love to do some crazy action or even a real romantic comedy. I think that would be really exciting.

  

  Jillian Murray
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Crazy

• Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Great
  • Men
  • Mind

• What is needed now is action, not hopelessness

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Action

• What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Movie
  • Today
  • Guy

• I try to pester Christian Dunn from time to time. As soon as my schedule allows, I plan to make a real pest of myself and get some hot, slippery Chaos action.

  

  Paul S. Kemp
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Christian

• I'm very sorry to Mr. Gabas, to whom I apologised in person. Very sorry for letting my Davis Cup teammates down and for letting my country down. I apologise to all the tennis fans, to my supporters, and my sponsors. I feel ashamed of my unprofessional behaviour and will accept any consequences as a result of my action.

  

  Denis Shapovalov
  • Country
  • Sorry
  • Tennis

• In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Nonviolence
  • God's Children
  • Hungry Masses

• I don't know if we have any action going on, so there shouldn't be anybody worried about the rumors if it entails the Milwaukee Bucks. This is our team.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Team
  • Action
  • Rumors

• I think we need to raise our voices, and we need to demonstrate to the people we represent, as well as the American people, that their leaders have a responsibility to take action.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • People
  • American
  • Responsibility

• My hats off to anybody filming action, because you get beat up. If I'm going to get the crap kicked out of me, I would love 15,000 people on hand to tell me that I'm doing good or I'm doing bad. So, if I'm going to be in any physical duress, I'd really like it to be in a WWE ring, which is why I was so amped to be a part of 'Trainwreck.'

  

  John Cena
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but 'Mulan' is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it's so important for young girls to have.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Fun

• It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

  

  David Duchovny
  • Action
  • Wife

• One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume a lot less electricity, for example.

  

  Mario J. Molina
  • Society
  • Energy
  • Light

• Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • People
  • Action
  • Golf

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