Quotes About Inaction

It was lights, camera, inaction.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.

Inaction will always have a disproportionate impact on those who are the most disadvantaged.

What to do when the whole world was on fire and you didn't have the equipment to put out the flames, when the fire was in you as much as it was around you, and no matter what you did or did not do, your actions would change nothing?

To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

It's my experience that people want to do something, but become confused by an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, not knowing what to do, and in the end do the only thing they believe they possibly can: nothing.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it.

Es wäre ihnen ein Leichtes, die Erde zu erobern, sie haben es aber bislang nicht versucht, weil dazu keine Notwendigkeit bestand. Sie lassen die Dinge lieber so, wie sie sind, und ersparen sich die Scherereien.

In the dream he could see Burt Wesson bearing down on him. He could see the gleeful, almost giddy violence in Burt's face as he drew closer and closer. In the dream, Myron had plenty of time to step out of harm's way. Too much time really. But in this dream—as in many—Myron could not move. His legs would not respond, his feet mired in thick, dream-world quicksand while the inevitable approached. But

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

Comme ils l'expliquèrent confusément, il y a deux façons de mourir : soit personne n'intervient et tout le monde s'en fout, ou alors quelqu'un essaye de faire quelque chose et n'y arrive pas. Ce n'est pas la même chose.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction.' Even

in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused then 'on the frightful desire to do something, with the knowledge that not to do anything was prob. the right answer'.)

The House of Peers, throughout the war,Did nothing in particular,And did it very well.

And with the final question, "Why didn't they fight back?" came the inevitable dismissal. "Because it would not have made a difference.

What could I have done? I was unarmed, untrained. I couldn't have taken care of them. I could barely take care of myself. What could I have done? . . . Something. [Maze sighs in her sleep. Darnell pats her gently.] I could have done something.

We fear saying the wrong thing or using the wrong tone or acting the wrong way. So rather than do it incorrectly, we do nothing at all.

Cowardice has its own rewards

Better, I thought, not to touch at all than to touch and bring hurt upon myself and others. Better to do nothing than to make a move and have it be the wrong one. But even deciding to not touch or to be nothing is a decision, Vanyel, and by deciding not to touch, so as to avoid hurt, I then hurt those who tried to touch me.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.