Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
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.
With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It’s almost like watching a scene from a film, and that’s what I go about trying to catch in a song.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
With action films, it’s great if it’s not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there’s nothin’ like kicking butt!
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Through my ongoing work as a UNAIDS Ambassador and with the End AIDS Coalition, I remain personally committed to aligning resources and galvanizing global action and working with amfAR to make AIDS history.
Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.
Dr. Rice’s record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President’s decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains – daisy chains – of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between ‘his,’ ‘her’ or ‘their’ wish and yours.
People generally think of Conservatives as competent, and they need to see that competence in action in delivering the public services that matter to everyone.
But in action, one defies one’s character.
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
I could take my grandma and put her in a cape, and they’ll put her on a green screen, and they’ll have stunt doubles come in and do all the action. Anybody can do it. They’re relying on stunt doubles and green screen and $200 million budgets – it’s all CGI created. To me, it’s not authentic.
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.
Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Work-based learning is a game changer. It’s like test driving a career, and I have seen it in action with our registered apprenticeship programs for high school students.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He’s not going to respond to words.
We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.
I’m not very good at action games in general and find most action games to be hard.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
I will listen to people, but then I will take very decisive action.
Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got ‘re-pigeonholed’ as an action actor.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
It’s always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.
I think it’s too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man… there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.
Wishing, hoping, and dreaming without an action plan – is nothing more than a pipe dream!
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible.
I wouldn’t want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original ‘Road Warrior.’ And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Die Hard’ and, of course, all of the ‘Star Wars’ movies.
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind.
I love to talk. I love to share. I love to vent. But I prefer action.
If you want to be a real human being – a real woman, a real man – you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, ‘Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.’
Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the same. We must immediately stop this madness to safeguard our social pact, freedom, and identity.
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn’t know it’s about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.
Every footstep we take, every action has a consequence. We breathe in weather, but we breathe out CO2. We’re responsible for weather and for climate.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
When I work with other people, I try to make up for their shortcomings with my strengths, and I let others make up for my flaws with their strengths. I try to co-operate with people around me when working in a group. I like to enhance team spirit on set. I try to get everyone involved in the action.
