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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

A 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.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.