Quotes About Action

Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy?" Howl asked. "Make toast!

It never ceases to amaze me," [Chrestomanci] said, "the way people always manage to worry about the wrong things. My dear sir, do you realise that you, your son, and four of your pupils, are all likely to be burnt unless we do something? And here are you worrying about timetables.

They knew that if, as a child, you do pluck up the courage to hit a bully, it is an act of true heroism--as great as that of Beowulf in his old age.

Em primeiro lugar, leia sempre tudo cuidadosamente. A forma deve lhe dizer muito, quer seja pra auto-realização ou autodescoberta ou simples encantamento, ou um misto de ação e fala. Quando decidir isso, reveja tudo e defina que partes significam o que dizem e que partes são incluídas como quebra-cabeça. Você está chegando aos tipos mais poderosos.

We did it because it was the right thing to do.

doing and not doing, everyone's conscience finds its

I only did my duty—if you can save somebody's life, it's your duty to try.

when it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in.

If you see an injustice, and don't move to right it when you have a chance, history won't forget that, either.

Never let time be your master,' Bellman told Verney when he asked about it. 'If you want to do something, take it on. Time will always make itself.

her fear of action was overtaken by her fear of inaction.

One of the first keys to success, he considered, was to recognize the difference between problems you could do something about and problems you could do nothing about.

Don't let emotions paralyze you.

For example, the newspaper located a school featured in the Clinton Foundation annual report as "built through a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action." In reality, "The Clinton Foundation's sole direct contribution to the school was a grant for an Earth Day celebration and tree-building activity."5

It is time to awaken!" "You have a mission! It is time to begin!" "Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!

It was necessary because she needed to do it. This is what made it necessary.

Stun me. I mean it. Draw the gun and shoot. I want you to do it, Kendra. Show me what it feels like. I'm looking for more. Show me something I don't know. Stun me to my DNA. Come on, do it. Click the switch. Aim and fire. I want the volts the weapon holds. Do it. Shoot it. Now.

They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.

He thought of firing a shot into the lock for the sheer cinematic stupidity of the gesture.

L'azione è verità, e la verità vacilla quando la guerra finisce e gli abitanti del villaggio sono liberi di tornare ai loro campi. Sopravviviamo, e siamo nuovamente sconfitti.

Is it better to commit evil and attempt to balance it with an exalted act than to live a resolutely neutral life?

What's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

Transient pleasures, drastic measures.

There is a piece of Chinese wisdom," she said. "To know and not to act is not to know.