Quotes About Action

Peter Pedersen

There was a scream of tortured rubber as the tyres caught the boulevard in a harsh left-handed turn, the deafening echo of a Citroën's exhaust in second gear, a crash into top, then a swiftly diminishing crackle as the car hared off between the shops on the main street towards the coast-road.

Put your guns away and get him out,' he ordered brusquely. 'I'll keep you covered. Be careful of him. I don't want a corpse. And hurry up, it's getting light.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

Head of S., thought Bond. They're certainly giving me the red carpet treatment.

Clausewitz's first principle was to have a secure base. From there one proceeds to freedom of action.

Mr Scaramanga looked up at him under lizard eyelids. 'No. If you figure the evening's not going so good, make it go better. That's what you're being paid for. You act as if you know Jamaica. Okay. Get these people off the pad.' It was many years since James Bond had accepted a 'dare'.

Goldfinger said, Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it's enemy action.

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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action

Señor Bond; en Chicago tienen un proverbio: «Una vez es casualidad; dos, coincidencia; y la tercera vez… una acción hostil».

Such a view [Two Kingdoms theology] has little place for cultural renewal, social action, or political involvement, as the vessel is doomed to destruction. Such a view leads to the often-heard cry that Christian young people should leave their ambitions for a career in teaching, medicine, law, or politics to do something that has eternal significance!

So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea.

He's weak and ignorant, scared of the way consequences of an action leap away from your control and breed new events, new consequences, until you're led to a place you never dreamed of and would never choose - a knife at the throat.

So what's the use of a headache, a heartache? What am I being warned against, or told what to do? Don't let your incestuous uncle and mother poison your father. Don't waste your precious days idle and inverted. Get born and act!

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

Amari did as he was told. At

The day's action was far from finished—there were more strikes to be flown, and there was the constant danger that Japanese planes not yet destroyed on the ground would find the Enterprise and pounce on her.

Operation hotfoot

I ripped my left arm out of his hand and slammed my elbow into his solar plexus. He exhaled in a gasp. I lunged for the dagger and sat on top of him, my knees pinning his arms, my dagger on his throat. He lay still. "I give up," he said and smiled. "Your move." Er. I was sitting atop the Beast Lord in my underwear, holding a knife to his throat. What the hell was my next move?

Yes, I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart.

He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. I win.

Curran looked at me. "What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling?