#action

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. ↗

— James Payn

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Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#archaic #britain #change #determined #i

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#automatic #becomes #develops #enough #frequently

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. ↗

— Annie Smith Peck

#before #climbing #few #follow #going

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#bipartisanship #cannot #forward #going #having

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. ↗

— Westbrook Pegler

#always #friendships #given #greater #hates

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#belief #due #effect #exercise #final

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#satisfaction #death

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#across #barely #earth #flames #look

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

— John McTiernan

#action movies #any #around #before #couple