Quotes About Inaction

This is why she can't get up. As long as she stays in bed everything's on hold.

It must be so easy to judge the decisions of someone else when you sit back and do nothing.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

Wszyscy narzekamy na pogod?, ale nikt palcem nie kiwnie, aby j? zmieni?

It's pathetic—how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great." Trudy

It's pathetic how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great -Hans Junior

Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom.

The passivity of the present Govt is beyond belief.

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.

Ik raakte ervan overtuigd dat niet meewerken aan een slechte zaak net zo goed een morele verplichting inhoudt als meewerken aan iets goeds.

All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

Everybody watched. Nobody stopped them.

If you are deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.

Goodman insisted there was nothing to be done.

But for whatever reasons—hubris, inattention, wishful thinking, hesitation, or the uncertainty of the moment—I let the opportunity pass.

The alternative was to do nothing.

which didn't do much of anything

How are we persuaded to participate in our own destruction by maintaining our silences?

Delay is a gun pointed at the temple of confidence.

They don't even have a modern government. It's the worst government in any state. The laziest. It does nothing—outside of keeping law courts and a police department. It doesn't do anything for the people. It doesn't help anybody.

He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are so afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.

Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing!

Passivity is aggressively doing nothing and allowing life—or anything else—to do everything for you.