Action Quotes

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

When the President makes something a priority, we see action.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

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.

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action.

I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

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

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.