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“I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.”

Feels Mind War States Action Young Interest Arms Scene Degrees Graduates Scholar Bells Farewell Thrillers Tolls Philip Farewell To Arms Whom The Bell Tolls Penn State

Author:David Morrell

“Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.”

“The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.”

Action Desire Secret Lord Taught Yoga Karma Krishna Karma Yoga Gita Lord Krishna

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Prayer is the preview of God's action.”

Action Prayer Preview

Book:Unashamed of the Gospel

Source: Unashamed of the Gospel

“Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me”

Knows Believe Mean Children Important Action I Believe Messages Following I Believe In Critical Handle Believe In You I Trust You I Believe In You

Author:Barbara Coloroso

“We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.”

“The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.”

Action Radio Advertising Shops Australia Annoying Jam Tyres

Author:Richie Benaud

“There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.”

Giving Philosophy Action Judging Currents Tendencies Mortals Streams You Choose Coherence Thoughts And Actions

Book:The Nature of the Judicial Process

Source: The Nature of the Judicial Process

“Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?”

Firsts Moments Today Action Moving Form Goal Steps Achieve Right Now Moving Forward First Steps Site Attainment Goals And Objectives

Author:Tony Robbins

“Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.”

Action Causes Term Imagination Effects Understood Consequence Relation Staying Inseparable Cause And Effect

Book:Standing by Words: Essays

Source: Standing by Words: Essays

“While it does, and should, feel good to be appreciated by another person, if you are dependent upon their appreciation to feel good, you will not be able to consistently feel good, because no other person has the ability, or a responsibility, to hold you as their singular, positive object of attention. Your Inner Being, however, the Source within you, always holds you, with no exceptions, as a constant object of appreciation. So if you will tune your thoughts and actions to that consistent Vibration of Well-Being flowing forth from your Inner Being-you will thrive under any and all conditions.”

Source: The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships

“Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.”

Needs Kind Home Action Black White Protect Labor Competition Slave Workers International Black And White Unfair Robots American Politics Affirmative Action Affirmative Slave Labor

Author:Jesse Jackson

“As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.”

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“I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.”

“When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.”

War Action Peace Hours Fire Definitions Israeli Stretching Snipers

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.”

People Would Be Action Christianity Buddhism Enlightened Priests Nun Celibacy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different.”

Different Matter Character Action Actors Easy Process Voice Information Computer Mouths Built Shooting Manipulate Action Movie

Author:Seth Rogen

“When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better!”

Stories Action Excitement Visuals

Author:Stan Lee

“Because of the way I've made my money or the way I've conducted myself in public to get success, it doesn't make me any better a person. So I always thought money and achievement would make me a more legitimate person, where my family seems to think it's all about actions.”

Thinking Way Persons Made Seems Action Achievement My Family

Author:Jim Jefferies

“We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.”

World Feelings Action Ability Manifest Our Thoughts

Author:Jason Mraz

“I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun.”

Wells Bigs Kids Action Fun Hero Locked Action Heroes Kids Movie

Author:Laila Ali

“What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work.”

Long Art Would Be Action America Political Culture Democracy Activism Senses Political Action Political Activism

Author:Ian Svenonius

“Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.”

Giving Action Waiting President Capable Sooner Or Later President Bush Unprecedented Affront

Author:Alexander Haig

“People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.”

People Action Political Views Common Cities Leader Class Empty Angry Tired Extremes Hungry Common Sense Borders Rhetoric Sanctuary Eliminating Framed

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.”

Looks Persons Today Action Type Tomorrow Consequence Contemplative Today And Tomorrow

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.”

Has Beens Seems Action Company Microsoft Ibm Antitrust

Author:Stephen Manes

“I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.”

Action Used Turns Information Example Insight Active Data Innate

Author:Michael Dell

“One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you.”

People Action Responsibility Destiny Happened Behavior Responsible Blame Architect Taking Responsibility Our Actions Our Words My Destiny

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.”

People Humans Feelings Action Human Beings Emotion Influence Position Succeed Capacity

Author:Tony Robbins

“We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.”

Men Action Used Seeing He Man

Author:Curtis Hanson

“The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.”

Two Action Fighting Flight Combat

Author:Earl Sweatshirt

“There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action - of not going through the forms that the society offers you, of representative government, of voting, of legislation, but directly taking power.”

Mean Matter Government Action Form Principles Offers Direct Characteristics Voting Representatives Legislation Anarchism Direct Action Representative Government

Author:Howard Zinn

“Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.”

Government Action Form Easier Direct Asking Strikes Passing Passings Legislation Employers Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.”

Thinking Want Kind Mean Important Ideas Ends Facts Action Evil Lines Common Principles Movement Direct Overcoming Characteristics Anarchism Anarchist Common Denominator Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.”

People Thinking Writing Humans Doe I Can Facts Action Differences Deals Race Fiction Reader Best Things Human Race Good Questions

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.”

Ideas Action Significance Prelude

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.”

Action Worthy Pens Favour

Book:The remains of ... George Herbert

Source: The remains of ... George Herbert

“Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.”

Thinking Men Action Animal Practice Species Complexes Revenge Evolve Consistency Survived Reflexes Thinking Man Vengeful Taking Revenge

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.”

Looks Action Degrees Behavior Concepts Sick Sickness Relative Symptoms Desirable Functionality

Author:Jo Nesbo

“A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.”

World Shows Action Novel Source Our Actions

Author:Jane Austen

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

Action Perfect Pleasure Ought

Author:Andre Gide

“In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.”

“And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.”

“When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.”

Men Seems Action Humanity Impossible Greatness Produce Standards Historical Contrary Saving Great Men Conception Historian Thread Atrocities

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.”

Matter Action Intention What Matters

Author:David Horowitz

“If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.”

Ifs Action Law Justice Standards Court Mere Supreme Als Uniforms Florida Supreme Court Gore

Author:Katherine Harris

“If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?”

Ifs Action Moral Taken Cost Benefits Majority Minorities Expenses Moral Action

Author:Garth Nix

“If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.”

Ifs Action Effort Quality Prepared Harvard Affirmative Action Affirmative

Author:Derek Bok

“Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.”

Action Lost Path Gains Democrat Debate Immigration Reform Voting Executives Legislation Residents Immigration Reform

Author:Aaron Klein

“To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.”

People Bigs Action Steps

Author:Juliana Hatfield

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