I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Half the struggle is just getting yourself to the gym or getting yourself in your workout gear and ready for action.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

My Hallway" remarked Lord Akeldama,"Has never seen such lively action. And That, my sugarplums, is saying something!

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!

The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

What I always keep in mind is that we'll take action on things that need to be done, promptly and without hesitation.

Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the lives of many.

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

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