Action Quotes

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Good managers have a bias for action.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

Direct threats require decisive action.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way, the more we can do on screen and the better it looks. Nowadays, they want the actors to do as much as possible and stunt doubles are primarily used for the dangerous things that aren't covered by insurance.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.