Quotes 261 till 280 of 508.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
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Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
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My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
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My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was younger, I hated action movies and pretty much anything loud. So when she put it on, I covered my ears and ran out of the room.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
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Never confuse movement with action.
Papa Hemingway (1966) -
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
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No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
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