Quotes About Inaction

The safest course was actually the simplest—do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.

It was then that the Room, like a great ship, put out to sea. Higher the waves, wider the horizons, rarer, more perilous, the cargo. In their strange world of childhood, of action in inaction, as in the waking dream of opium eaters, to stay becalmed could be as dangerous as to advance at breakneck speed.

The indolence I love is not that of a lazy fellow who sits with his arms across in total inaction, and thinks no more than he acts,... ...but that of a child which is incessantly in motion doing nothing, and that of a dotard who wanders from his subject.

Cuando hay que hacer lo contrario de mi voluntad, no lo hago, ocurra lo que ocurra; tampoco hago mi voluntad, porque soy débil. Me abstengo de actuar: dado que toda mi debilidad es para la acción, toda mi fuerza es negativa, y todos mis pecados son de omisión, raramente de comisión.

You complain because things don't arrange themselves around you like a bouquet of flowers, without your taking the slightest trouble to do anything. But I have never asked as much: I wanted action. You know, when we played adventurer and adventuress: you were the one who had adventures, I was the one who made them happen.

We are not a nation of strikes and inaction. We will not be preached at by militant unionists with a crap whippet and a chip on each shoulder.

For far too long, the Republican leadership in Congress has refused to act and pass comprehensive reform fixing our broken immigration system. In light of Republican inaction, I strongly support President Obama's executive actions on immigration.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

No action will lead us to being smart, alone and broke.

The increase in cautious inaction among coworkers is another subtle but powerful effect that psychopathic behavior has on the organization.

Most nice people know what is bad in this world, and they feel horrible for those who are wounded and broken. But they don't have the guts to act in any meaningful way.

A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community can stop finding ways to dither in the face of this monstrous threat to humanity those words Never Again will persist in being one of the most abused phrases in the English language and one of the greatest lies of our time.

There are risks and costs to a program of action but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Such are the lives of those who haven't the courage to risk: solutions are generously provided by God, but people always seek complicated explanations, and end up doing nothing.

Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

El pensamiento es útil cuando provoca una acción, y un obstáculo cuando sustituye a la acción. —BILL RAEDER

The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them.

Complacency by the masses is my greatest weapon.

Meaning evil only wins—" "—when good men and women do nothing.

It's like Mark Twain said, everybody complains about the weather, but no one ever does a damn thing about it.

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and drying out and floating dryly away, and

We await, I predict, the hero of non-action, the catatonic hero, the one beyond calm, divorced from all stimulus, carried here and there across sets by burly extras whose blood sings with retrograde amines.