I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now.
~ Christina Milian
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.
~ James Earl Jones
I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
~ Michael J. Fox
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
~ Hugh Evans
Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
~ James K. Polk
When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.
~ John Lasseter
I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender.
~ Shamir
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
~ Malcolm X
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
~ Samuel Smiles
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
~ Colin Powell
Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
~ Honoré De Balzac
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
~ John F. Kennedy
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
~ Abu Bakr
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
~ Karl Jaspers
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
~ Francis Bacon
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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.
~ Theodor Herzl
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
~ Walter Pater
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
~ W. Clement Stone
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
~ Douglas Horton
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
~ Simon Sinek
Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.
~ Travis Bradberry
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.
~ Adam Braun
The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.
~ John Lewis
During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.
~ Melissa Bean
Justice is the truth in action.
~ Joseph Joubert
Justice is truth in action.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
~ Suze Orman
If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.
~ Charles Kennedy
The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
~ Ellen Key
Courage is action, not talk.
~ Jeff Rich
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.
~ Robert Englund
The only cure for grief is action.
~ George Henry Lewes
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.
~ Shiv Khera
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
