Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S TrumanLiterature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: 'You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.'
Cesare PaveseI was annoyed and I was crying [her honest reaction to losing a tennis match at the US Open]
Shahar Peer"The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me."
Glenn CloseI was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.
Ade AkinbiyiLet the relationship mature and allow those transactions to emerge which are relevant and when they are ready to come out.
Thomas PowerThere's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
Dustin HoffmanWe know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac SingerThe kind of attacks made for instance against me - the Welsh windbag - did produce in the Labour movement an over-reaction which was understandable.
Neil KinnockAs the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions
OvidHe who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Victor HugoFor every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob WellsA man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it (Maid In Waiting)
John GalsworthyChristmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Dale EvansI can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
Roman PolanskiExperiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.
Sir Martin ReesThe price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister EckhartI believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig ZiglarLeadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold GeneenNo human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W H AudenUefa should take as strong action as it is allowed to do.
Mark HughesIt is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Karl Von ClausewitzIron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Leonardo Da VinciThis body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEnthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel SmilesAll adventure is now reactionary.
William F Buckley JrMy initial reaction is that I do not believe it is true. But the integrity of the sport is bigger than anyone playing it and if someone undermines the integrity of a sport then I find that offensive. (on Rusedski's drug trial)
Andrew CastleA dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Thornton WilderEnglishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B YeatsOur planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.
James LovelockIt is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Jacob BronowskiCourage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur KoestlerThinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W Clement StoneI must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord TennysonAbuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John AdamsIf I get the same sort of stick against the Aussies, they'll get the same sort of reaction...
Sajid MahmoodDeeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boasting
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEnthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.
Henry ChesterDon't just work
for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.
Kathy IrelandCharacter is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture or the blending notes of music which constitute the man.
John MacDuffEvery time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother TeresaGoodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plough, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good.
James HamiltonYoung people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Pope John Paul IIAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss
Noam ChomskyA person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart MillWhen a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James BaldwinI have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan GreenspanOne gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.
Robert HughesDancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
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