#action

The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it. ↗

— David Thewlis

#best #doing #done #faces #kid

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction. ↗

— Karel Capek

#never #own #people #personal #personal satisfaction

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state. ↗

— Rene Char

#behind #gentle #inner #spirit #state

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#fog #grotesque #kind #larger #like

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

#behaves #even #foes #his #host

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#air #air force #base #brave #brave soldiers

Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#advice #best #clearly #cost #counsel

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. ↗

— Robert South

#conscience #credit #devotions #dress #easter

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#action #determined #europe #even #father

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#back #begged #eventually #fraction #heard