Famous Quotes & Sayings

The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

The ECB has to be cautious since risks probably outweigh benefits. So I expect hawkish talk but cautious action.

The easing of the tensions in the Middle East has calmed down the oil market and there appear to be no immediate plans to conduct military action against Iraq. So that has eliminated the second point of worry,

Richard Hawley

The easiest course of action would have been to satisfy everybody, use Col. New as the scapegoat and it would have been done with, ... But it would have been the wrong thing to do ... because Col. New had done everything we could ask a prudent commander to do in order to deal with the situation in that unit.

The games are always very intense, a lot of action, hard-hitting, and a lot of fun.

Julianne Moore

The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.

The funds were donated in full compliance with federal law and disclosed properly and publicly, but yesterday's admission of guilt and improper actions warranted our action to make something positive come of all this by donating the money to local charities rather than retaining it.

Andrew Cohen

The court almost had to take up this issue again. It was clear in 2003 when it said that you could not limit this procedure unless certain exceptions were in place. Congress then enacted a law without those restrictions and now the court will have to decide whether the justification for the Congressional action is constitutional or not. It should be a very close case, almost certainly a five-four ruling.

Edward Albee

The characters' lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you've killed them off.

Dale Carnegie

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The Masters truly is a tradition unlike any other. It will also be, by far, the most bet on golf event ever. Like last year, we expect to see a lot of people taking advantage of the real-time betting option, meaning that you can adjust your bets as the action progresses.

The markets would consolidate and stock specific action would continue. I advise caution while investing at current levels and with trading tight stop losses.

The markets are concerned that robust growth in the U.S. will eventually lead to inflation and actions by the Fed.

Epictetus

The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant

The MCC should establish whether any of the South African medicine regulatory requirements have been breached and recommend the appropriate course of action to remedy such a situation.

Heinrich Heine

The men of action are, after all only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought

Helen Zille

The memorandum sets out all the DA's grievances and proposes a series of action steps which the DA believes the SABC should take -- including broadcasting the DA's manifesto launch live -- if it is serious about providing balanced and fair coverage of this and future elections.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

David Healy

The market has developed massively over the past five years; this is where the action is and where the growth is coming from.

The market is not really factoring in the true impact of military action but the mere mention of it sends prices higher.

Jonathan Edwards

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

Ovid

The gods behold all righteous actions.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.

Philip Massinger

What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

Phil McGraw

Awareness without action is worthless.

Peter Ackroyd

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

Moshe Sharett

An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

Vernon Howard

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Rick Majerus

It's good to be in on the action.

Richard Farnsworth

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

Thomas Paine

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Thomas S. Monson

Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.