Quotes About Inaction

If you are like most human beings, you are one big procrastinator.

N'écoutant que son courage, qui ne lui disait rien, il se garda bien d'intervenir

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers)

But like my father, I have not done anything. I could not, because I am me, because I died long ago.

En un país donde puede pasar TODO, no pasa NADA.

El que corre corre hacia la muerte, que a veces se comporta como una verdadera haragana y se sienta simplemente a esperar a que el cristiano trabaje por ella y tome un revólver el apurado y se despache de un tiro cualquiera en el corazón.

Good men have only to do nothing, for evil to conquer" (137).

Again Mosca felt she was up in the rafters, watching the mice. Little mouse, witless with fear. Running the wrong way. And here she was, just watching. Becoming a part of it by doing nothing.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.

Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

I look around me sometimes and I get sick to my stomach. Why the hell don't these bastards do something? I wonder. They don't do a fucking thing, and then they moan about it.

You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction.

When we undertake to deceive others intentionally, we communicate messages meant to mislead them, meant to make them believe what we ourselves do not believe. We can do so through gesture, through disguise, by means of action or inaction, even through silence.

Pessoas demais ficam olhando e não fazem nada para ajudar pessoas com problemas.

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 afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.

It is clear that the disagreement between the authorities completely paralyzed action. Not

Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.

I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...

Porque el que no actúa también hace algo que lo convierte en culpable en la Tierra...