Action Quotes

I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.

When you choose not to take action on something because you realize you have no control, this is letting go.

I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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.

Justice is truth in action.

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.

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.

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!

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.