Quotes About Action

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway. Knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will eer know why.

It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

It is never seven that you count to, before you do something difficult. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.

If we keep waiting until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of your lives.

I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried. "I'm moving these noodles as quickly as I can!

if you don't choose the wicked thing what in the world will you do?

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do

I do what I do, in order to do something else.

panic. "Vireo!" Sunny cried, which meant "Let's run—or, in my case, crawl—as fast as we can!" "We'll never run fast

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives. Let's go.

What can I do?" Klaus asked. "You can pray this works," Violet said, but the Baudelaire sisters were so quick with their tasks that there was no time for even the shortest of religious ceremonies.

The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things

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I will suddenly remember this thing I did, and think to myself, Was it really necessary?

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do, and the only thing I could think of was finding out what was going on in this town.

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do

Siete pronte? » domandò alla fine Klaus. « No » rispose Sunny. « Neanch'io » disse Violet, « ma se aspettiamo di essere pronti aspetteremo tutta la vita. Andiamo ».

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward, you will wish you had done something different.

If we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives

Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!