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"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch"
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."
Quote by -Charles Lamb
"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
Quote by -Virginia Woolf
"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."
Quote by -Robert Ingersoll
"Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with"
Quote by -Dallas Willard
"May I just give you this word? Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action."
Quote by -Dallas Willard
"One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own."
Quote by -Denis Leary
"Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush."
Quote by -Denis Leary
"Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants."
Quote by -Denis Leary
"I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies."
Quote by -Denis Leary
"We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence."
Quote by -Fernando Pessoa
"This action today to fund brand new projects, most of which are unrelated to the hurricane, is going to have a lot of folks up here scratching their heads, ... It's not going to build confidence in what we're doing on the ground, and that confidence building is an absolutely necessary part of what we need to have success in Congress."
Quote by -David Vitter
"I think the ultimate test of this concept is what concrete, positive, bold action this produces."
Quote by -David Vitter
"I am taking this action today because it is in the best interests of MSO and because I think it's the right thing to do,"
Quote by -Martha Stewart
"I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company."
Quote by -Lee Scott
"The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."
Quote by -George W. Bush
"I've slightly changed my action and movement and tonight it really worked well for me."
Quote by -Marat Safin
"Every action of yours at the present time is bound to have a reaction, resound and reflection in the future."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place for hatred."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Always try to put yourself in the position of the other and judge your action against the background. Then you will not be wrong."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
Quote by -Anais Nin
"Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port."
Quote by -Iris Murdoch
"It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible"
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer."
Quote by -Jackie Chan
"We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor."
Quote by -James D. Watson
“There’s one thing that is guaranteed to increase your feelings of control over your life: a bias toward action.”
Quote by -Mel Robbins
“If you don’t learn how to untangle your feelings from your actions, you’ll never unlock your true potential.”
Quote by -Mel Robbins
“Jean-Baptiste also saw this. He wrote to me that he realized “that nobody was going to come and get me to live the life that I want to live and that taking action is the only way to create my own space into the world.”
Quote by -Mel Robbins
“When there’s no crisis and you are just stuck, it is much harder to force yourself to react. There’s no emergency. That’s why it is so easy to postpone action. Day in and day out you just do the same old thing.”
Quote by -Mel Robbins
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is - One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.
Quote by -Lenny Bruce
When compared to six years’ schooling at a German authoritarian gymnasium, it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority.
Quote by -Albert Einstein