#action

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#action #children #commitments #decisively #deferring

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#between #company #financial #mental #needs

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#best #breathes #comes #day #distraction

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#civil #civil rights #communist #even #had

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#action film #bad #bad guys #come #film

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#annihilation #broken #chain #come #dark

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#actions #appalling #bad #bad people #generation

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#because #cannot #catharsis #defeat #emotional

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#alive #already #bring #creators #direct

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too. ↗

— Regina King

#actions #ages #certain #children #distinct