Quotes having the keyword Action
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
by Rowan D. Williamskeywords: action, cannot, capacity, confined, essential, gift, health, help, liberty, long, needful, offer, offered, own, poor, poverty, something, theirs, well , which I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
by Tennessee Williams (Dramatist, American , born in 1911) keywords: action, any, bulb, light, more, naked, remark, rude, stand, than , vulgar But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
by Bruce Willis (Actor, American , born in 1955) topics: Movies , Celebrity Quotes keywords: action, bad, come, film, genre, gonna, guys, new, some , up First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
by Carl Wilson (Musician, American , born in 1946) keywords: action, ago, associate, avid, become, blogs, decade, discussion, e-mail, energy, especially, first, internet, kind, lists, music, reader, rock, seemed, where , writing Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.
by Henry Winkler (Actor, American , born in 1945) keywords: across, action, against, belong, called, childhood, children, country, did, diseases, first, network, now, organization, right, thing , wonderful My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
by Frank R. Wolf (Politician, American , born in 1939) keywords: action, america, awake, backs, body, boldness, christ, content, holy, hope, mere, neither, nor, prayer, results, silence, those, up, will , words Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
by Paul Wolfowitz (Celebrity, American , born in 1943) keywords: action, capabilities, expand, fewest, least, opportunities, public, resources, seek, set, should, those , voice The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.
by John Woo (Director, Chinese , born in 1946) keywords: action, always, deep, director, full, heart, human, inside, make, movies, nature, only, passion, rich, see, show, some, something, thing , very Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: action, either, itself, must, nobler, precede, salutary, than, theory, thought , yet Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: action, associated, basis, beneficial, consequent, departure, else, ethics, false, find, first, here, ideas, lose, moral, morals, now, principle, real, right, sight, something, substitute, than, true , wrong Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: action, actions, belief, consequences, deduce, first, force, imaginations, judgment, longer, look, make, our, place, religious, right, rule, sensations, square, their, then, trace , wrong We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
by Peter Yarrow (Musician, American , born in 1938) keywords: action, americans, any, before, careful, deliberation, example, fail, injure, lead, leaders, lest, might, must, particularly, require, shoes, those, times, walk , world Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
by William Butler Yeats (Poet, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: action, asleep, books, conversation, dead, design, get, living, may, nothing, paper, pride, repair, spend, their, thought, unless, waste, weary , wisdom From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.
by Donnie Yen (Actor, Chinese , born in 1963) keywords: action, actor, being, choreographer, director, dynamics, elements, experience, film, maker, producer , understand Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.
by John Yoo (Educator, American , born in 1967) keywords: acquiring, action, al, allows, attacks, casualties, civilian, could, future, goal, information, launching, massive, means, only, operates, our, pre-emptive, preventing, qaeda, surprise, targets, use , which It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
by Zig Ziglar (Author, American , born in 1926) keywords: action, bed, character, commitment, discipline, enabled, follow, got, into, moved, out, through , us There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
by Zhang Ziyi (Actor, Chinese , born in 1979) keywords: achieve, achieved, action, actors, also, course, film, hard, just, only, prove, quickly, sake, spend, still, talent, these, think, work, working , years
