Quotes About Action

Sit," Chloe said, dashing after him and tugging firmly at his sleeve. "Let's hear the rest of it. You can kill him later." ~Chloe to Dageus.

Fear translates to hesitation, and hesitation kills.

Often, it was only the bold, fearless, risky action that had any hope of circumventing impending doom, as if Fate was amused by the colorfully unexpected, and while she was laughing, one might slip changes past the pernicious bitch.

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

Dünyay? kurtarmam?z gerek,'' diye hat?rlatt?m. Bana uzand?.''Dünya bekleyebilir.Ben bekleyemem.

Bold. Ruthless. Energy. Action. Tenacity. Hunger. That was what B-R-E-A-T-H was.

It's unnecessary to understand how an animal became rabid to put it down

Time does not define the act. Time is impartial; it neither condemns nor absolves. The action contains intent, and intent is where the definition lies.

I'm not here to argue for the world. That's not in my job description. I'm just trying to save it.

Omission or commission—the end result is the same.

Sometimes when all hell's breaking loose the only thing to do is to break more hell loose.

Gah, I'm what-iffing! I don't what-if! What-iffing is for grownups. They what-if themselves right into doing nothing, and die without ever living.

I glanced back at the two darknesses. They were moving toward us. Quickly. I looked up at Barrons. He was motionless, staring down at me. He turned and looked over his shoulder where I had been staring, then back at me. Then he pushed open the door, shoved me inside, shut the door, and slid three dead bolts behind us.

Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, with the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.

Evil, good, create, destroy. Puny minds. Puny caves. Time, MacKayla. Time absolves. "Time does not define the act. Time is impartial; it neither condemns nor absolves. The action contains intent, and intent is where the definition lies.

I want results and I know how to get them. He's always telling me to ask. Tonight I'm asking.

Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?

People waste so much time mulling over things they've done when all the mulling in the world neither undoes nor changes one iota of what you did. The only thing that alters the unsatisfying state in which you've left things is future action. Either never see the person again, or see them and do something to set the record straight.

He smiled faintly. "Do your thing, Ms. Lane. You might be criminally young, but the night is not.

Indeed, there are times the most desirable, correct, necessary action results in catastrophic consequences. We're facing them now.

I will confront the wasp in our nest come morning.

There's your first mistake. Learn to act, kid.

You can tell them to run all you want but there aren't a lot of people that will, until they believe they're in major danger—which is usually too late. They gape like cows, and if you don't know it, cows gape a lot.

Immediacy is efficiency.