Action Quotes

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

No action is without its side effects.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

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.