Quotes About Action

Moving before I think is my specialty," I said.

Do you know the difference between courage and foolhardiness, Dresden?" "Any insurance adjuster would say no." He waved a hand at my banter, as though that was all the acknowledgment it deserved. "Hindsight," he said. "Until the extended consequences of any action are known, it is both courageous and foolish. And neither." "Well," I said, "tonight you earned yourself a Schrödinger's Medal, I guess.

Stop where you are." He didn't. He took a step toward me. So I shot him.

I like shooting zombies," he drawled. "That's all. I got a patch and everything.

Just once," I growled, "I'd like to save the goddamned day without a shot clock. You know?

but one of them had rolled a higher initiative this round

time for anything subtle. Lucky for

I've never met a place I couldn't blow up, burn down, or knock over with enough motivation

A little kung fu, a little John Wayne, and a few casual threats.

There is the world that should be," he growled, "and the world that is. We live in one." "And must create the other," Ebenezar retorted, "if it is ever to be.

So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don't look at me like that. I'm telling you, it made sense at the time.

We need you to help talk us through this. That's crazy! I said. Go in guns blazing!

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

I had to get myself moving before the problem started looking too big. It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next.

In real life, the chair doesn't break when you slug somebody with it, the way it does in the movies. The person you hit is the one who breaks.

Me and the Blue Beetle kick ass. In a four-cylinder kind of way, but it still gets kicked.

Then I drew in a breath, and my renewed will with it, lifted the rod in my right hand, murmured a phrase in a language I didn't know, and blew the tires off his fucking truck.

I gritted my teeth and got out of Butters's car

Get back!' I shouted. With my right hand, I grabbed at Billy and shoved him behind me. With my left, I shook out the bracelet on my wrist, hung with a row of tiny, medieval-style shields. I lifted my left hand toward the truck and drew in my will, focusing it with the bracelet into a sudden, transparent, shimmering half-globe that spread out between me and the oncoming truck

To be a writer you have to write, not sit around reading books about how to do it.

The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times.

Most of what you do to fulfill God's purposes will require acts of faith.

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.

Policework is like having ringside seats to the greatest show on Earth! (Ringling Bro's ref.)