Quotes About Action

Eventually, it's better to go forward into it and have things settled than to huddle in terror for one second longer.

It. Wasn't. Right. No, it wasn't. But the world wasn't a fair place, was it? And I had more reason to know that than most people twice my age. The world wasn't nice, and it wasn't fair. People who didn't deserve it suffered and died every single day. So what? So somebody ought to do something about it.

Come with me if you want to live," I said. "Excuse me?" "No time," I said. "It isn't your fault, but you're into some bad business, Harvey. There's a woman with two hired goons about to come up your back steps, and they aren't here to sell you a magazine subscription." "What?" he said. "Do you have an appointment?

I didn't follow her right away. She didn't look back. Stab. Twist. God, I love being a wizard.

How long do I have to take care of it?" I asked. "SOON." "Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon?

I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

concentrate on what you will do, not what you should have done.

A mangled corpse in the middle of a blood-drenched floor. Berserk FBI field agents drawing guns and shooting to kill. A little kung fu, a little John Wayne, and a few casual threats. So far, I thought, my nerves jangling, just one more night on the job.

I'd been feeling sorry for myself, which is about the most use- less thing you can feel: it doesn't do a damned thing for you. You don't feel any better, you don't get any better, and you're too busy moping to do anything to actually make your life any better. There's

Time to start doing," I whispered.

I kicked him in the head with my rented formal shoes. My shoe went flying off, which I was pretty sure never happened to James Bond. The

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.

I'd been feeling sorry for myself, which is about the most use- less thing you can feel: it doesn't do a damned thing for you. You don't feel any better, you don't get any better, and you're too busy moping to do anything to actually make your life any better.

It's what you do with the want that matters.

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are.

We didn't charge into the fray so much as aggressively shamble.

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward.

Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.

There had to be something I could do. Had to be. There had to be.

Bosun!" "Aye, skipper?" "Reinforce the mainmast, hang out all the laundry, and warn the witchmen! Let's make the old bitch fly!

Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others—even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

And I . . . I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.

He wondered idly, as he flew onward, pursuing the distant form of the Queen, if he could somehow watercraft the portion of his brain that had advised this idiotic course of action. Clearly, it was defective.