#action

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#calculator #depth #emotional #equally #how

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#advocate #analyze #being #bias #easier

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beverage #book #comfortable #couch #distractions

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films. ↗

— Corey Hart

#action #action films #films #idea #night

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results. ↗

— Mike Hawkins

#focusing #get #produce #results #you

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#apostles #could #evils #existing #imitate

There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#action movie #african-american #bringing #cat #coming

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#actions #guidelines #i #know #laws

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#angst #character #characters #hamlet #iii