Action Quotes

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Awareness without action is worthless.