During ‘Race 2,’ I had to lean down completely because there was a lot of action scenes in it. – Jacqueline Fernandez
More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy – he’s one of their own. – Jay Leno
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin
The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In ‘Pac Rim’ I’m not doing that so much. There isn’t that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action. – Idris Elba
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. – John Irving
Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation. – Ike Skelton
Here’s the point – you’re looking at affirmative action, and you’re looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who’s gonna wanna work? – Jon Stewart
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. – Immanuel Kant
If you look at what happened with Underground Railroad, there is so much action. There is so much intrigue; there is so much of historical importance. – John Legend
Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country’s course. This cuts against the grain, and that’s why incumbents have a natural advantage. – John Podhoretz
The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what’s needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures. – Ian Somerhalder
Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective. – Ian Goldin
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot. – Jon Meacham
The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign policy which may ultimately come before them for their consideration, the President secures harmony of action between that body and himself. – James K. Polk
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take. – James Callaghan
I think when science fiction is at its worst, it’s just spaceships flying around shooting at each other. There has to be a lot more going on than that… science fiction is about exploring new worlds and new ideas, not about ray guns and action, necessarily. – Jeff Lemire
The problem is not that the U.S. economy won’t be able to take care of its citizens – it is that taking away benefits, creating intergenerational warfare, and scapegoating will make for very difficult and bad politics. This is a tragedy that we can see coming. Early action would be relatively painless. – Jamie Dimon
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. – Joseph Conrad
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. – John Kasich
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood. – Ira Sachs
I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion. – Jay Weatherill
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately. – Jason Statham
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. – James F. Cooper
I’m not trying to be an action star, and I’m not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. – J. Robert Oppenheimer