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Quotes About Action

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.
~ Danny Wallace
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!
~ Unknown
Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?
~ Darren Shan
Kebanyakan orang merasa takut suatu waktu dalam hidupnya. Itu tidak berarti mereka pengecut. Pengecut adalah mereka yang tidak melakukan apapun ketika rasa takut mengancam menghancurkan mereka.
~ Darren Shan
Quick! Head for the ground floor! We have to get out! We will die if we stay! The vampires are here! Haven't you got a hug for me, Larten, old buddy?
~ Darren Shan
One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.
~ Darren Shan
I say to hell with Generals, Princes and the rest. Life is too short. I want to live, fight, love, die. Not waste my time studying.
~ Darren Shan
A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Morelli shook his battered head. "I don't apologize for what I do—people've got to take it or leave it—but I don't mind telling you I'm sorry I lost my noodle and cracked down on you and I hope it ain't bothering you much and if there's anything I can do to square it I—
~ Dashiell Hammett
You have to DO what you want to BE!
~ Dave Anderson
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
~ Dave Barry
We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how
~ Dave Barry
And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
~ Dave Eggers
I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
~ Dave Eggers
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.
~ Dave Eggers
If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
~ Dave Eggers
Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move.
~ Dave Eggers
It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light.
~ Dave Eggers
I often cannot believe the things I do.
~ Dave Eggers
You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and during this one life, you should put your words down, and make your voice heard, and then let others hear your voice. And the only way any of that's going to happen is if you actually do it. People can't read the thoughts in your head. They can only read the thoughts you put down, carefully and with great love, on the page. So you have to do it, goddamnit.
~ Dave Eggers
He tried to calm his thoughts, but everything came back to what he'd almost done. Because he hadn't done anything, for years or ever, he had almost done this. Because he had no stories of valor, he had almost done this. Because the efforts he'd made towards creating something like a legacy had failed, he had almost done this.
~ Dave Eggers
The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt—
~ Dave Eggers
Young men, come and blow things up.
~ Dave Eggers
If ever I love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
~ Dave Eggers