Quotes About Action

What're you—Jane Hawk?

If someone had killed Hamlet in the first act, a lot more people would've been alive at the end.

The release from action and suffering, release from the inner and the outer compulsion.

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object too long at rest tends to have her throat slit.

perhaps even before you can file the action. In fact, I guarantee it.

By relocating from this world to the one where Jeffy and Amity yearned for her, she'd be taking an action that would spawn other parallel lives for herself, of which she, in this incarnation, had no knowledge. Other than her husband and daughter, whose lives would be affected by her action, how many others would live additional lives that branched from her action, and did it matter?

He would never claim to be a hero. However, there were moments when you had to show up, be there, assume risks, take bold action, if you still wanted to call yourself a man.

Katie hurries toward whatever confrontation awaits.

Every day he gave thanks for his legs, and proved his gratitude by using them.

When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw.

the wake of the shriek, gunfire erupts. One, two, three shots.

Katie switches it on again and reverses a little beyond the beginning

by those who want to feel good about themselves without being put to the inconvenience of doing something.

After the slightest hesitation, Lindblom says

Once a weapon was drawn, it was more likely to be used, and not always as wisely as you might expect to use it.

can protect you, but we have to move fast.

The free kitchen, after-school programs, keeping porn out of libraries—all that needs done, but it's dealing with the aftermath, not with the causes. I'm in the mood to deal with a cause.

He ejects the depleted magazine from the

When you are 70% sure, act / because the other 30% is reserved for hope / which is doubt turned upside-down.

Only by living in reality 100 percent of the time do we have the power to take action, make lasting changes, and become the masters of our lives.

It's really quite simple: if we want our lives to be different, all we have to do is make different choices.

As a kid I can remember my mother telling me that our lives are merely a reflection of what we see and do. If we are kind, others will treat us with kindness. If we love, we will be loved. If we care, we will be cared for.

it's not what you've done that will fill you with regret, but what you haven't done?

Don't allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others.