Best 4991 quotes in «action quotes» category

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this.' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you can't do it when it's convenient. If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it right now.' (talking about pursuing her career as a singer)

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.

Ideas without action are useless.

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.

I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.

I did love that scene in the movie [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"] because it's like "The Wizard of Oz." You see the backstage action of politics. You have access to see behind the curtain. You see how it's all one big advertisement.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

I didn't investigate Hillary Clinton before she was in office, I started investigated Hillary Clinton's actions after the inspector-general said that there was classified information housed in a non-classified setting.

I didn't think; I experimented.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

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

I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

I do have huge pressure in terms of making my animation, because a lot of audiences and producers are expecting me to make films with a lot of action. They all know that I'm very good at action scenes, but I tend to not use many, so they're all frustrated with me. But I do that intentionally. Yes, if I do a movie with a bunch of action, it's going to be a lot more successful than the types of movies I'm making right now. The producers often say, "Instead of using all these philosophical phrases, why don't you change this into an action scene?" But I intend to continue to make these movies.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.

I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

I don't agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what's happening in our climate.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's.

I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual, that change starts with the individual. I think it is really about purifying your own actions, and I have seen that in my own life.

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story.

I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

I do think that when we're looking at Putin's actions, we really need to look further into what his point is. Because I think there is a misconception that this is kind of reigniting the Cold War and Putin's a bully. And he's just, you know, sort of lashing out at Ukraine when actually I think that this goes much deeper to that.

I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences.

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

I'd probably be better in an action role and even a more comedic role as I find myself pretty hilarious.

I’d seen him fight before, but it never got old. He was captivating. He never stopped moving. Every action was graceful and lethal. He was a dancer of death.

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen. If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender.

I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.