123 Metaphors for actions

Politics are a field where action is one long second-best, and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

None are moved by the Sound of Words, but those who understand the Language; and the Sense of many things is lost upon Men of a dull Apprehension: but Action is a kind of Universal Tongue; all Men are subject to the same Passions, and consequently know the same Marks of them in others, by which they themselves express them.

This combined action of the child and heroine, it is quite unnecessary to say, afforded Lance undiluted joy.

The action of this convention was the topic of discussion, in public and private, for a long time, and stung many women into new thought and action and gave rise to the movement for women's political equality both in England and the United States.

But I do not believe that any instructed and impartial student will accept what appears to be the current English view, that the action of Germany in this episode was a piece of sheer aggression without excuse, and that the other Powers were acting throughout justly, honestly, and straightforwardly.

All his actions are superfoetations, that either become monsters or twins; that is, too much, or the same again; for he is but a supernumerary and does nothing but for want of a better.

His actions are his privy-council, wherein no man must partake beside.

"I know that each sinful action, As sure as the night brings shade, Is some time, somewhere punished, Though the hour be long delayed.

His actions are strong encounters, and for their notoriousness always upon record.

The action during the last few minutes had been too great an effort for Nathaniel and his wound troubled him again.

His answer was that the proposed action of the powers was a breach of neutrality and that Montenegro would not alter her attitude until she had signed a treaty of peace.

But the excess must be in the line of duty; merely needless and irrelevant action is not supererogation.

As in most finales, one's actions now become less restrainedbut, from a brutal point of view, more effective.

His actions (some say) are apprehension, composition, division, discoursing, reasoning, memory, which some include in invention, and judgment.

The actions of governments are necessarily expedients,the wisest policy in view of all the circumstances.

I won the case, and it was generally believed that the action was the cause of the appointment of the "Gaming Committee," at which tribunal all the rascality of the gaming-tables was called to give evidence, and the witnesses did so in such a manner as to shock the conscience of the civilized world, which is never conscious of anything until exposure takes place in a court of law or in some other legal inquiry.

The actions of governments are necessarily expedients,the wisest policy in view of all the circumstances.

No more, trust not the ayre With our projections, let us all revenge Wrongs done to our most noble kinswoman: Action is honours language, swords are tongues, Which both speake best and best do right our wrongs.

He managed to control his release of her hand and his rising from his chair so that these actions should not be so brusk as to waken her again and, leaving the room, went down to his own.

But Richard's heroic actions in Palestine were the best apology for his conduct.

Action had been the manna of his life.

My actions are my minister's." KISSES Here's to a kiss: Give me a kiss, and to that kiss add a score, Then to that twenty add a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred, and so kiss on, To make that thousand quite a million, Treble that million, and when that is done Let's kiss afresh as though we'd just begun.

My modest thesis is that there exists nothing of the sort, that the world of men is entirely made up of the individuals that compose it, and that the collective action is just the algebraic sum of all individual actions.

This action was perhaps the finest feat amongst the very many gallant deeds performed by decoy ships during the war.

Action from insight is alone true morality.]

123 Metaphors for  actions