Quotes 161 till 180 of 508.
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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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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.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 130 -
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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Heroism is active; genius, contemplative heroism. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.
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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [To] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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