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Neither action nor style could have accomplished the result alone.Both were needed.
And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: they rent out my room.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly everyaction and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Tragedy isthus a representationof anactionthat isworth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitudeby means of pityand fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.
Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.
We know very little about what it is that moves great masses of men to action, and until we know more about this it is fitting for the social scientist to maintain a becoming modesty in the presence of a great deal to be modest about.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Never under the most despotic of infidel Governments did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return, in the very heart of a Christian country. And what are your remedies? After months of inaction, and months of action worse than inactivity, at length comes forth the grand specificthe never-failing nostrum of all state physicians from the days of Draco to the present time; death. Is there not blood enough upon your penal code that more must be poured forth to ascend to Heaven and testify against you?
How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride.
For, strictly considered, what is all knowledge too but recorded experience, and a product of history; of which, therefore, reasoning and belief, no less than action and passion are essential materials?
The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
Most true it is, as a wise man teaches us, that 'doubt of anysort cannot be removed except by Action.'Onwhich ground, too, let him who gropes painfully in darkness or in uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: 'Do the Duty which lies nearest thee', which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We are so proneto thesethings with our terrible notions of duty.
The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action.We cannot learn men from books.
Justice is truth in action.
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail: And pity never ceases to be shown To him, who makes the people's wrongs his own.
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones. Everybody knows that the United Nations isnot ina position to dothat We must facethe fact that the United Nations is not yet the internal equivalent of ourown legal systemand rule of law.Police action must be to separate the belligerents and to prevent a resumption of hostilities.
And right action is freedom From past and future also.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Never confuse movement with action.
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.
That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. See Bentham 77:65.
Quant a' l'action, elle se passe en Pologne, c'est a' dire, nulle part. The action takes place in Poland; in other words, nowhere.
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
Quantities defined in terms of measurements made at the end of the period in question are referred to as ex post ; quantities defined interms of actionplannedatthe beginning of the period in question are referred to as ex ante.
Actioni contrarium semper et aequalem esse reactionem: sive corporum duorum actiones in se mutuosemper esse aequales et inpartes contrarias dirigi. To everyaction there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, themutual actions oftwo bodiesuponeach other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.
Asthe strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
La Poe sie ne rythmera plus l'action; elle sera en avant. Poetry will no longer keep step with theaction; it will be ahead of it.
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives.
If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.
Whenpolitical ammunitionrunslow, inevitably therusty artillery of abuse is wheeled into action.
Chafing in action when his nature yearned to act, conscious of indignitiesreal and imagined,Johnsonwent through three years of slow burn.
The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war. Some will wish one nation, others another, to succeed in this monumental struggle. I venture to speak a solemn word of warning. The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men's souls.We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.
A balance, an ennobling interchange Of action from without and from within; The excellence, pure function, and best power Both of the object seen, and eye that sees.
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