Quotes About Action

Now if you'll excuse me, gentlemen, I need to play Russian roulette with our planet's future with the bullet you've so thoughtfully provided. I hope you don't mind if I don't see you out.

They didn't mean any harm in it. But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway.

I am not Death. I am killing; I am the verb, I am the action, I am the performance.

I'm going to shoot him twice now. We still need to bring him in alive, I said. I didn't say I was going to kill him, Powell replied. Just that I was going to shoot him twice.

When you find them, blow them up a little for me.

Maybe that's what's bothering me," I said. "There's no sense of consequence. I just took a living, thinking thing and hurled it into the side of a building. Doing it didn't bother me at all. The fact that it didn't does bother me, Alan. There ought to be consequences to our actions.

You don't win by getting through all your life not having done anything.

Don't think that it's your fate to feel badly in your heart. Act until your heart is singing again!

I'm not trying to save the world, much of it is not worth saving.

Because...because how can I expect the world to be a better place if I ain't gonna try real hard to make it better?

You are What you do When it counts - The Masao

It was an odd being which rose from Felix and through him. It was, in fact, a remarkable creature. It was a wartime creature and a surviving creature. A killing creature. The Engine, Felix thought. It's not me. It's my Engine. It will work when I cannot. It will examine and determine and choose and, at last, act. It will do all this while I cower inside.

You are What you do When it counts.

Intention, good or bad, is not enough.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now -- look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over...

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there