Quotes with action

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  • Heinrich Heine Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Bow Wow Me and Lucas Black are actually starring in that movie 'Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo.' It's gonna be hot and different. My first action movie, so it's gonna be great.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Francis Quarles Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • George S. Clason Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
    George S. Clason
    American author (1874 - 1957)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Camille Paglia 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)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • John Ruskin 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.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Herbert Hoover 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.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Barry Commoner 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.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Billie Lourd 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.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Al Sharpton National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Francis Quarles Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Never confuse motion with action.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Never confuse movement with action.
    Papa Hemingway (1966)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Never mistake motion for action.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Seneca No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis 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.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Rachel Carson No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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