Action Quotes - Page 120

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

Terrorism attacks peoples' trust in the system of their state. There is protection, but only if there is collective action and collective understanding about how to really deal with this phenomenon.

Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

We become just by the practice of just actions.

Our actions determine our dispositions.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.

We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

If you want to be happy, you will be.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.