Quotes with action

Quotes 201 till 220 of 446.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect.
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Charlotte Brontë It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Ben Shapiro It was always foolhardy for Republicans and conservatives to stake their objections to Obamacare on the number of sign-ups; Social Security is going bankrupt despite 100% enrollment. The reality is that Obama was always destined to hit his required numbers because, after all, he has the power of government to compel action.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carter Heyward It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.
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  • Norman Cousins Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Justice is truth in action.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Bill Rancic Kitchen competition shows are so action-packed. They just get your adrenaline pumping.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bill Shorten Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Donald H. Mcgannon Leadership is action, not position.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ben Schwartz Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Alexander Mackenzie Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Mother Teresa Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • E. M. Cioran Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Albert Claude Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Cass Sunstein Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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