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  • When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).

    Heart   Talking   Doubt  
    Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

    Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics
  • Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.

    Way   Action   Indecisive  
    Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group
  • Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade their personal lives, with no oversight or accountability. Law-abiding Americans also deserve to know that when law enforcement can show an impartial judge clear evidence of criminal activity or a threat to national security, swift and decisive action will be taken to protect the public. That is the balance we must achieve.

    Taken   Law   Phones  
  • In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren't we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.

    War   Nice   Good Friend  
  • Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

    War   Mean   Men  
  • Direct threats require decisive action.

    2004 Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 24 Jan.
  • The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

  • Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

    Men   Risk   Ignorant  
  • Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

    Taken   Home   America  
  • No subject was more important in the 2014 elections than healthcare, and Republicans in Congress should waste no time in taking decisive action in response to the voters'€™ demands. Obamacare has escalated costs, disrupted coverage, and introduced bad incentives throughout our healthcare system. Congress must repeal Obamacare and send the president a replacement package of reforms that protects freedom and focuses on the real problem with American healthcare -€” affordability.

  • When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

    Fire   Camels   Tents  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and Americas long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

  • And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

    Action   Ready   Happens  
    Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.140, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

  • The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

    Life   Future   Mean  
    "Les Faux Monnayeurs". Book by André Gide, Pt. 3, ch. 16, 1925.
  • The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

  • Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

    Carl von Clausewitz (1956). “On War”, p.1389, Library of Alexandria
  • Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process - they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.

    Real   Nsa   People  
    "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.
  • The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

    H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.41, Powell Publications, LLC
  • We've taken decisive action to keep radical islamic terrorists out of our country, though parts of our necessary and constitutional actions were blocked by our judges, in my opinion, incorrect, and unsafe ruling.

    Country   Taken   Islamic  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

  • I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

    Country   Issues   People  
  • Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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