Actions Quotes

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

Intentions count in your actions.

Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful for that and for the actions of this body.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.