#action

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#action #advisor #become #cease #desire

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#fraction #hardly #life #little #little time

I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.' ↗

— Melissa George

#action hero #hero #i #just #thought

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#genes #interaction #lots #our #responsible

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill. ↗

— Vince Gill

#attraction #awful #companionship #day #fill

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. ↗

— Martha Graham

#another #audience #behavior #being #body

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic. ↗

— Judd Gregg

#action #also #awakening #being #democracy

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#active #becomes #being #intensely #many

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#gather #grows #information #sleep #unprofitable

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#again #conducted #during #had #hoped