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Action Quotes - Page 116

I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

"Interview with Emma Stone On The Set of Zombieland". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. July 7, 2009.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.18, Nilgiri Press

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.489

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 48 (on Comenus)

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.177, Penguin

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.164, Penguin

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Dorothy Miller Richardson (1938). “Pilgrimage”

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.278, Vintage

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.108, SCM Press

Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.

"Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

Direct threats require decisive action.

2004 Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 24 Jan.

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

"'Slackers': Devon Sawa Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

Images split the truth in fractions.

Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.13, New Directions Publishing