What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
~By Helen Rowland ~
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.
~By Chris Christie ~
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
~By Andre Maurois ~
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.
~By Jackie Chan ~
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.
~By Jan de Bont ~
The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.
~By Mack R. Douglas ~
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
~By Dylan Thomas ~
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
~By Keith Henson ~
In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
~By B. H. Liddell Hart ~
I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.
~By William Whipple ~
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
~By Roger Ebert ~
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. ~
I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
~By Brian Molko ~
I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
~By J. G. Stedman ~
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
~By Francis Wright ~
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
~By Charles Scott Sherrington ~
Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
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 ~
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
~By Thornton Wilder ~
I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.
~By Kirsten Dunst ~
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
~By Henry Miller ~
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
~By George W. Bush ~
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
~By John Ruskin ~
I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
~By Warren Beatty ~
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
While Slovakia did not make the first round of NATO membership, as various requirements and reforms are instituted, these actions will enhance the opportunities to join NATO.
~By John Mica ~
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
~By Learned Hand ~
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.
~By Bill Toomey ~
It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.
~By Robert Mondavi ~
If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.
~By Graham Nash ~
Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.
~By John Boehner ~
Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.
~By Wilhelm Ostwald ~
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
~By Robin G. Collingwood ~
People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.
~By Cesar Romero ~
Action makes more fortune than caution.
~By Charlotte Whitton ~
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.
~By Maria Jeritza ~
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?
~By Chad Hugo ~
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
~By Robert Shea ~
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.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.
~By Andrew Bogut ~
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
~By Dennis Gabor ~
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
~By Charles J. Givens ~
Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.
~By Len G. Murray ~
If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
~By John Acton ~
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
~By Cheryl Tiegs ~
General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.
~By Edward Everett ~
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
~By Herodotus ~
The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
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 ~
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
~By James Callaghan ~
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
~By Aaliyah ~
I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.
~By Dave Eggers ~
Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.
~By Howard Hughes ~
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
~By Learned Hand ~
Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!
~By John Davidson ~
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
~By Henri Cartier-Bresson ~
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
~By Freeman Dyson ~
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
~By Theodore Isaac Rubin ~
To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.
~By Alexis Herman ~
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.
~By Dave Freudenthal ~
I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
~By Hayao Miyazaki ~
I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
~By Garth Brooks ~
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
~By Dorothy Day ~
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.
~By Matt Lauer ~
Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
~By Robert Teeter ~
I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.
~By Norman Granz ~
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
~By Richard Whately ~
I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.
~By Geena Davis ~
We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
~By Brigham Young ~
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
~By Nat Friedman ~
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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