Quotes About Inaction

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.

If they were all concerned, why didn't they do something about it? But of course that's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late. We put the stoplight at the intersection after the kid is killed

People regretted what they had done, and what they wished they hadn't done, far more than what they had not done and perhaps should have.

Charlie Ledley was even worse: He had the pallor of a mortician and the manner of a man bent on putting off, for as long as possible, definite action.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.

say that evil happens when good men do nothing. And the Democrats prove it also happens when mediocre people do nothing.

What good am I if I know and don't do. If I see and don't say.

Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly

I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

Se fizesse aquilo olhando no espelho, seria como assistir a outra pessoa, num livro ou numa peça. Mas a pessoa no espelho estava paralisada e era estúpida demais para fazer qualquer coisa.

I'm so jealous I can't speak. Nineteen years, and I hadn't been out of New England except for this trip to New York. It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

It's happening,' I thought. 'It's happening. If I just lie here and do nothing it will happen.

There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.

Like all such absurd acts of aggression, nothing was accomplished.

Even now, years later, it's hard to tell why the government stood by and let the city of New Orleans be destroyed, dispatching troops rather than help.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.

Nerede kald? diplomasinin 'öngörmek için bilmek, gere?ini yapmak için de öngörmek' kural?? Hareketsizli?in hafiflikten bir fark? var m??

En cambio te quedás (...) dándole vueltas a los falsos problemas, esperando no se qué. Si todo esto es absurdo hay que hacer algo para cambiarlo.