This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.
~By Margaret Chan ~
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
We are men of action, lies do not become us.
~By William Goldman ~
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.
~By Kathy Ireland ~
Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
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.
~By David Kay ~
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 ~
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
~By Ferdinand Mount ~
While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
~By John Rowland ~
We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
~By Minnie Pearl ~
I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.
~By Joe Wilson ~
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
~By James Earl Jones ~
In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
~By Bo Jackson ~
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
~By Jim Carrey ~
Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
~By Vincente Fox ~
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.
~By Greta Garbo ~
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
~By Michael McCaul ~
The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.
~By Michael Beschloss ~
I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.
~By Kenichi Fukui ~
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 ~
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
~By William Howard Taft ~
I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.
~By John Cusack ~
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
~By Ron Paul ~
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
~By Hortense Odlum ~
I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.
~By Eugene Jarvis ~
Intentions count in your actions.
~By Abu Bakr ~
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
~By Jacques Lipchitz ~
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
~By John Steinbeck ~
May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
~By Don DeLillo ~
I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.
~By Rosie O'Donnell ~
I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.
~By Lusia Strus ~
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
~By Frank Murphy ~
At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.
~By Shane West ~
When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
~By Boris Becker ~
The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.
~By Danny Elfman ~
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
~By B. H. Liddell Hart ~
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
~By Adam Clarke ~
We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
~By Cofer Black ~
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
~By Harry Mathews ~
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
~By Manuel Puig ~
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
~By John Dewey ~
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 ~
An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
~By Adnan Pachachi ~
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 ~
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
~By Randy Bachman ~
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
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 ~
As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.
~By Jim Hodges ~
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
~By Douglas Horton ~
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
~By Al Sharpton ~
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.
~By Randy West ~
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
~By Henri Cartier-Bresson ~
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
~By Larry Dixon ~
You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.
~By Page McConnell ~
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 ~
Actions lie louder than words.
~By Bob Wells ~
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
~By Emanuel Ax ~
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
~By George W. Bush ~
I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
~By Jim Hodges ~
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
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 terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.
~By Jo Bonner ~
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
~By Noah Webster ~
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
~By Confucius ~
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
~By Robert Blair ~
At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.
~By Jane Harman ~
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale.
~By Roger Andrew Taylor ~
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.
~By Roland Allen ~
What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
~By Jean Claude Van Damme ~
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
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 ~
Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.
~By Joe Murray ~
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