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Action Quotes
"I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically."
"Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil."
"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."
"Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil."
"Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear."
"All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light."
"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity."
"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."
"Actions can let you fail or let you succeed. Either way it will never fail to give you experience which is much more important than success or failure."
"I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action."
"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."
"The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union."
"Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan."
"To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action."
"If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct."
"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
"You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act."
"With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity."
"To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them."
"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
"When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves."
"I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?"
"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."
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