Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.
~By Devon Sawa ~
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
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 ~
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
~By Scott Reed ~
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
~By Terry Brooks ~
I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!
~By John Hughes ~
He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.
~By Derek Luke ~
The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.
~By Craig McCracken ~
Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.
~By Joseph Crowley ~
Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
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 ~
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
~By Helena Petrova Blavatsky ~
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
~By Elihu Root ~
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
~By Alan Thicke ~
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.
~By Garry Marshall ~
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
~By Karel Capek ~
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
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 ~
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
~By Toni Morrison ~
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
~By Al Sharpton ~
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?
~By Jacques Chirac ~
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
~By Barney Frank ~
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
~By Douglas Horton ~
I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.
~By Curt Weldon ~
The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
~By Minor White ~
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
~By Colin Powell ~
I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.
~By Alexander Mackenzie ~
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 ~
Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
~By Akhenaton ~
Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.
~By Tom Berenger ~
Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.
~By Kathy Valentine ~
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
~By Barbara Deming ~
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
~By Anton Seidl ~
I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
~By Enya ~
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
~By William Scott ~
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
~By Bob Wells ~
Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
~By Hans Selye ~
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
~By Frank R. Wolf ~
I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.
~By Bruce Davison ~
They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
~By Barry Sonnenfeld ~
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 ~
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
~By Bruce Jackson ~
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
~By Jim Hodges ~
There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
~By Parker Posey ~
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
~By Albert Claude ~
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
~By Al Lewis ~
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Each is responsible for his own actions.
~By H. L. Hunt ~
I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
~By Learned Hand ~
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
~By Dave Freudenthal ~
The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it.
~By David Thewlis ~
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 ~
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.
~By Rose Tremain ~
When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.
~By Kathryn Bigelow ~
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.
~By Ed Royce ~
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
~By Jayson Blair ~
I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.
~By Shannon Lucid ~
It was never really my choice to be an action heroine.
~By Izabella Scorupco ~
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
~By Diane Watson ~
It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.
~By Katie Holmes ~
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
~By Henri Cartier-Bresson ~
You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
~By George P. Baker ~
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.
~By Robert Fripp ~
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
~By Jock Sturges ~
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
~By Shania Twain ~
There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
~By Jim Hodges ~
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
~By Hayao Miyazaki ~
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
~By Robin Cook ~
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 ~
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 ~
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.
~By Werner Heisenberg ~
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 do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.
~By Thomas Perry ~
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
~By John Acton ~
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