Quotes of: Human-actions Keyword

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

Jose Marti

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

Chaka Fattah

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

Jan de Bont

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

Brad Pitt

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

Andrew Young

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.

Casper Van Dien

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

Christopher Lambert

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

John McTiernan

I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy... I wanna scare people.

Richard Schiff

I am an affirmative action hire.

Anna Quindlen

For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs of Innocence Cruelty has a human heart And jealousy a human face, Terror the human form divine, And secrecy the human dress. The human ...

William Blake

The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed by his reason and its designs; so that no one becomes this or that because he wants to, though he w...

Essays and Aphorisms

they say 'lifes never fair'. That's a myth from Zoomanity. Life is fair, life is good, we all get the same, its YOU that makes the diference and you only. Blaming life is a myth created by zoomanity so you can unload of your actions onto something el...

Escape From Zoomanity

The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human ...

The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men

The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about....

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their respo...

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has t...

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

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.’ ‘Grea...

War and Peace

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, an...

Stephane Hessel