The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
~By James Joyce ~
He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.
~By Alan Lomax ~
Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.
~By John McLaughlin ~
The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
~By Mark Kirk ~
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
~By Dean Inge ~
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
~By Arthur Helps ~
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
~By Howard Staunton ~
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
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.
~By Jules Renard ~
I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.
~By Jonathan Brown ~
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
~By Woody Allen ~
These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.
~By Mickey Gilley ~
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
~By Sallust ~
If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.
~By Diane Cilento ~
I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.
~By Akshay Kumar ~
My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.
~By Derek Luke ~
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
~By Doris Lessing ~
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.
~By Jay Inslee ~
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
~By Isaac Newton ~
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.
~By Robert Hughes ~
Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.
~By Izabella Scorupco ~
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.
~By Thomas Foran ~
Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.
~By Nigel Mansell ~
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
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.
~By Indira Gandhi ~
The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.
~By George B. McClellan ~
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
~By Akhenaton ~
It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.
~By David R. Ellis ~
I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
~By Godfrey Harold Hardy ~
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
~By Arthur Keith ~
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?
~By Ronnie James Dio ~
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
~By Abu Bakr ~
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
~By Phil Ochs ~
I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.
~By Mark-Paul Gosselaar ~
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Action based only on principles isn't always good even if it feels good.
~By John Chancellor ~
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
~By Jim Hodges ~
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.
~By Tom Paulin ~
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.
~By Don Bluth ~
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.
~By David McCullough ~
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.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
~By Christopher Walken ~
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
~By Norman Mailer ~
I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.
~By Prince William ~
I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
~By Emma Thompson ~
Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
~By Lars von Trier ~
Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
~By Sarah Bernhardt ~
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
~By William James ~
Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
~By Ike Skelton ~
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.
~By Ross Perot ~
You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.
~By Mike Hawkins ~
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
~By Gustave Moreau ~
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
~By George Horace Lorimer ~
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Direct threats require decisive action.
~By Dick Cheney ~
The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
~By Harold Ramis ~
Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.
~By Judd Gregg ~
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
~By Westbrook Pegler ~
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
~By Patrick Henry ~
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
~By James Shirley ~
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
~By Elizabeth Blackwell ~
The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
No action is without its side effects.
~By Barry Commoner ~
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~
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