Top 1200 Action Figure Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

The outrages surrounding the Benghazi attack involve administration action - or lack of action - before, during, and after the attack.

I would really like to do a straight action movie, that's hardcore, heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

I figure if someone calls something a 'Draugr,' people can figure out that it's a monster or some sort of mythic creature, and if they want to know more, there's plenty of information out there about those mythic creatures.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'

I had to figure out myself to figure out my game.

My life isn't just one genre. It's a romance one minute, an action movie the next - it's actually rarely, rarely an action film, to be frank.

What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

I kind of approach action/non-action very much similarly. It has to be character-based and it has to kind of come off the theme and the overall arc.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story.

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

Rich or poor, we all need organizations that can represent us; we all need modes of collective action when individual action does not yield justice.

I strongly believe that besides having good action, action-oriented films need to have a good baseline for the script.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

We do have the nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, that's an enforcement consequence, action for action, follow on. We have a plan, we will watch them, we will be vigilant.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

There are only two ways: either we love-and love in action is service - or we put hatred into action and destroy.

Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.

I'm a big fan of the 70's action films. Where there is a lot of character and a lot of great action, but the action is kind of cemented with a great back-story with characters. And I thought, this kind of reminded me of the movies that, early on when I was telling Dwayne (Johnson) and the guys, the producer... my whole thing is if you look at a movie like The Driver by Walter Hill, it's a film where there's no names. They are just named, "the driver", "the cop".

If there is any action that punishes imports to the North American market and encourages U.S. exports, you have to reflect it in a mirror action to counteract the change of incentives that this would make for activity and investment in Mexico.

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take anything that's not necessarily going to be timeless. I want to get across what I feel and I just use the figure because I enjoy the figure.

I'm excited to watch slope style and halfpipe. And then, of course, when my events are done, I get to go to hockey, which is always entertaining. I also like figure skating. I think every girl grew up watching figure skating.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

The deductive reasons for a course of action usually follow rather than precede the course of action. Thought follows life.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

No one is immune from either taking the wrong action or not taking action at all, but the sense that something is completely out of a person's control is stronger in China.

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs.

All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything the action of God.

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

At one time, especially during the era of action heroes, women took a bit of a secondary role because heroes were doing most of the action.

Trying to make certain things on the Internet totally private unless you subscribe. It's not going to work. If you can figure out how to close something down, somebody can figure out how to open it up. That's art.

I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo!" -Bobby Pendragon

I have a lot of books optioned. This one sat around for a while - part of that was just because I was trying to figure it out, and I didn't realize I needed Pam to figure it out - but I'm not somebody that likes to option books and then sit on them.

I think a lot of action films, and I'm just saying this as a moviegoer, the default setting on action films seems to be how could it be cooler?

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

I kind of had to figure stuff out on my own and get myself snowboarding competitively again. I went through all types of different legs to try to learn which were going to work for me. Luckily, I was able to figure it out.

When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Do not first announce action, and then, when you are unable to take action, withdraw, because you will only find yourself in the same position as now, plus a public and humiliating confession of impotence.