Action Quotes

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

God alone can finish.

Courage is action, not talk.

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

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

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

It's astonishing how many people who direct action don't know how to tell a story.

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

I was made for action movies.

The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

It's difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching.

Taking action births motivation.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

I also love horror movies; I like me a big Peter Berg action movie. I'm a movie lover in general.

Not looking really to do some big giant action movie that's just trying to make a lot of money.

I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.

Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.

I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

Nature supports right action.

The best politics is right action.

Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!

Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.

I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.