Quotes About Inaction

He was usually her companion in avoiding things, but tonight he was letting her down. His fingers hadn't stopped moving all night.

Lo que uno siente hacia los muertos, pensó, se basa siempre en la imposibilidad de toda acción.

inaction and acrimony while the planet slowly burned.

Sólo hay una manera de evitar la crítica: no hacer nada, no decir nada, y no ser nada. ARISTÓTELES, FILÓSOFO

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do.

If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.

Your inaction, inertia and cynicism removes from the world that part of you that could learn to quell suffering and make peace.

the worst decision of all is none.

Things fall apart: this is one of the great discoveries of humanity. And we speed the natural deterioration of great things through blindness, inaction and deceit. Without attention, culture degenerates and dies, and evil prevails.

All she—he—they—or we—must do to ensure such an outcome is nothing: don't notice, don't react, don't attend, don't discuss, don't consider, don't work for peace, don't take responsibility. Don't confront the chaos and turn it into

we speed the natural deterioration of great things through blindness, inaction and deceit. Without attention, culture degenerates and dies, and evil prevails.

Sve se može srušiti: to je jedno od velikih ljudskih otrki?a. A mi ubrzavamo prirodno propadanje velikih stvari svojom sljepo?om, nedjelovanjem i zavaravanjem. Bez budne pozornosti kultura se raspada i umire, a zlo pobje?uje.

Man works for an object. Remove the object and you reduce him to inaction. The most active man in the world will fold his arms from the instant he understands that it is madness to bestir himself, that this work will be the cause of his trouble, that for him it will be the cause of vexations at home and of the pirate's greed abroad. It seems that these thoughts have never entered the minds of those who cry out against the indolence of the Filipinos.

Batid ni Kapitan Tiago na maraming santo sa kalendaryo na walang ginagawa, at marahil wala ring ginagawa roon sa langit.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

The Senate was the home of governmental sclerosis.

have come to see that neutrality is the most extremist stance of all; without it, no tyranny can flourish.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

There were always well-developed plans in Jeeter's mind for the things he intended doing; but somehow he never got around to doing them. One day led to the next, and it was much more easy to say he would wait until tomorrow. When that day arrived, he invariably postponed action until a more convenient time. Things had been going along in that easy way for almost a lifetime now; nevertheless

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?