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Quotes About Action

If I have to murder Hugh, I don't want to do it naked," he said. "It would be weird.
~ Ilona Andrews
Often wrong, but never in doubt. Once you decide what you need to do and how to go about it, you can't afford to second-guess yourself. You just do it." The
~ Ilona Andrews
Besides, if I'd decided to pull Carver's spine out of his body, I would've done it already." "Can you actually do that?" Curran frowned. "I don't know. I mean theoretically if you broke the spine above the pelvis, you could, but then there are ribs . . . I'll have to try it sometime.
~ Ilona Andrews
Hey," I told him. "What's going on?" "Paul's nephew has been kidnapped by a local gang. About 50 people. I'm going to get him back." Curran grinned at me. "Will you be home in time for dinner?
~ Ilona Andrews
You can stay out here and compare inches for the entire night, but I'm going inside.
~ Ilona Andrews
Arland shuddered. Helen giggled again, grabbed her mug, and hurled it at the wall. The mug shattered. I looked back. Helen's seat was empty. The platter of bacon had vanished. Sean lost it and laughed.
~ Ilona Andrews
Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity had touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim had sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.
~ Ilona Andrews
We had a saying in the army," Tom Buckwell said. "Often wrong, but never in doubt. Once you decide what you need to do and how to go about it, you can't afford to second-guess yourself. You just do it.
~ Ilona Andrews
Desperation is a catalyst that forces us to act," Odalon said. "It summons the last reserves we possess in an effort to extricate us from danger.
~ Ilona Andrews
We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives, and we alone are responsible for them." "When
~ Ilona Andrews
Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one.
~ Ilona Andrews
I gotta split." Slightly deeper, male. Heard it somewhere before. "You promised!" "The magic's cresting, okay? Gotta split." Young voices. A boy and a girl, talking street. The only available door hung crooked and would make noise when I tried to open it. I kicked the door in and walked inside.
~ Ilona Andrews
The Marshal scooped up the dead vampire's hammer and brained the last remaining raider with it. Maud remembered to breathe. The Marshal sprinted to the shuttle. Sparring with him would be amazing. She could go all out without holding back.
~ Ilona Andrews
We make our own choices in life. Our actions shape our lives, and we alone are responsible for them.
~ Ilona Andrews
Do you want to be an adult or a child? Children require comfort even in a crisis, because they can't understand how urgent things are. In a child's world, it's all about them: how this affects me, how this makes me feel, why is life so unfair? An adult sees a problem and tries to fix it. They think of other people and they plan their actions aware of the consequences. They understand that there will be time to deal with grief and loss after the danger is over.
~ Ilona Andrews
I could do the punching. Punching was easy. It was the clever banter and dealing in convoluted half-truths and almost-lies that made me want to jump out of my skin.
~ Ilona Andrews
Vincent rolled his eyes. "I can't believe I have to say this. You there, dashing male secretary! Drop the frying pan.
~ Ilona Andrews
Landon spun the wheel. The Land Rover nearly careened, turning off the road. Landon parked and bolted out of the car, slapping the driver's door closed behind him.
~ Ilona Andrews
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
~ Immanuel Kant
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
~ Immanuel Kant
The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
~ Immanuel Kant
Sesuatu untuk dikerjakan, seseorang untuk dicintai, sesuatu untuk diharapkan. Itulah kebahagiaan.
~ Immanuel Kant
act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a general law of nature.
~ Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination, resting solely on empirical grounds, and it is vain to expect that these should define an action by which one could attain the totality of a series of consequences which is really endless.
~ Immanuel Kant