Action Quotes

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

Action conquers fear.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.

The test of any man lies in action.

I am an affirmative action hire.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

So we still need a permanent fix. The president would sign the Dream Act tomorrow, the next day, the day after that. That's ultimately the only way to fix this, is for congressional action.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.