Action Quotes

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

So we still need a permanent fix. The president would sign the Dream Act tomorrow, the next day, the day after that. That's ultimately the only way to fix this, is for congressional action.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

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.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

I've always wanted to be an action figure.

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.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.