Action Quotes - page 12

It is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action. (Marshall McLuhan)
Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows. View quote
Cesare Pavese
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Consider this point carefully: nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission. View quote
Cesare Pavese
I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. View quote
Mae West
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic. It's just - I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective. View quote
George W. Bush
If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me. View quote
Georges Bataille
Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning-and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action. View quote
Georges Bataille
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action. (P. G. Wodehouse)
In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece. View quote
Madeleine Stowe
Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt [Black Panther Party] and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels ... that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. View quote
Roger Ebert
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. View quote
Roger Ebert
[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez, or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action. View quote
John Dryden
We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times. These are exceptional times. View quote
James Connolly
Prayer is where the action is. View quote
John Wesley
[Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that – so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it! View quote
Nora Ephron
Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day. (Nicholas Sparks)
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. View quote
Anaïs Nin
For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape. View quote
André Maurois
The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination dominates; And his are all things that eschew the light. The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance, For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now, And the dark work, complete of preparation, He draws by force into the realm of light. Now must we hasten on to action, ere The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight, For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not. View quote
Friedrich Schiller