Quotes About Action

none of this talk. A week or so later, thinking about Mark's words, Randy had decided to go into

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Martha Graham, speaking to dancers, could have been speaking to any artist, any writer: There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening which is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist.

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.

I borrowed a hammer and the garage and disposed of both phones. I was pretty sure that I could have just pulled the batteries, but pretty sure wasn't good enough, so I used a hammer.

Sometimes the only action you can take leads to more trouble. (Honey)

that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Why the rolling pin and not a knife?" he asked, his voice raspy with the need for action. She looked at him for the first time since she'd seen his face on the stairs. "A knife wouldn't even slow him down, but bones take time to heal." He liked that. Who'd have thought he'd get turned on by a woman with a rolling pin? "All right," he said. "All right.

Neutral doesn't work," Charles said. "When you watch your allies commit atrocities and do nothing, who is more reprehensible? Those who rape and plunder or those who could have stopped it but do nothing?

Action is the best cure for despair.

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Accept some responsibility for your own life, I panted, finally. You could have stayed sitting in the middle of the road. You chose to come with us.

Because at that moment it was the best thing to do," Honey said coolly. "Sometimes the only action you can take leads to more trouble. But she would have considered that when she did it. Mercy is no fool

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing'

I didn't ask what you'd said about it," the frog snapped. "I asked what you're going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Thanking all her lucky stars individually and by name, Cimorene twisted and scrambled to her feet, sword ready.

We must clearly do something.

he turned my hand over again and brushed a kiss across my knuckles. I experienced a nearly overpowering desire to hit him in the eye.

Well," said the frog, "what are you going to do about it?" "Marrying Therandil? I don't know. I've tried talking to my parents, but they won't listen, and neither will Therandil." "I didn't ask what you'd said about it," the frog snapped. "I asked what you're going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.