Quotes About Action

It is the flow of a communal action that is full of the overflowing grace of God, present in gestures and concrete signs as well as in words.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Vedete, così la penso io: se al bene che vorrei fare si avvicina troppo un grande male, allora preferisco non fare affatto il bene. Perché il male noi sappiamo benissimo qual è, il bene molto meno.»

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.

Transform Yourself to Transform the World

Don't focus on what happened, focus on what you will do next.

Well! I decided to bring those two books back to the library. Which proves that when a person or an event comes along to jolt or appraise me I CAN take some appropriate action, although I am better known for my hospitable remarks.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

Air was filtering out of my two collapsing lungs. Water rose, bubbling to enter, and I would have died of instantaneous pneumonia - something I have never heard of - if my hand had not got hold of a glass ashtray and, entirely apart from my personal decision, flung it.

Live before you die.

You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.

if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.

He turned on the wipers, and used his window wash. When the windscreen cleared, the ears had gone, and so had the pimps.

We produce nothing but our act of faith.

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

The beginning is the half of every action.

When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

This was her last chance at the closest thing to freedom: her will, her actions, and the outcome in the world could all be in harmony.

What would Tullia have done?

The wonderful thing about hope is that it has absolutely no effect on anything. Just throw the switch.