#action

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#action #action movies #actor #being #dangerous

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#attraction #being #being strong #carries #carry

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#carries #greatest #hearts #his #most

Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world. ↗

— Howard Berman

#country #east #energy #foreign #foreign policy

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do. ↗

— Joan Blades

#aim #express #fact #in fact #members

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. ↗

— Demosthenes

#cannot #conduct #his #man #mean

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#express #lot #speaking #things #without

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory). ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#consciousness #content #course #effects #hence

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature. ↗

— Robert Blair

#genius #nature #speak