Quotes About Action

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

The way you build your bed is how you will sleep in it",

do with you?

Ethical politics requires more than rational demystification.

The ritual dance was a dromenon, a thing to be done, not a thing to be looked at.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

I've done many things in my role. I've ended the lives of those who deserved death for what they'd done. I've trained women, broken men, coaxed powerful people to trust us when they never should have. I've stolen and plundered, ravaged and destroyed. But now Sadie holds in front of me what I want but can't demand, coerce, or force: her adoration. Her respect. Hell, her trust.

The heart's actions are neither the sentence nor its reprieve. Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite. One bird singing back to another because it can't not.

Like Others In the end, I was like others. A person. Sometimes embarrassed, sometimes afraid. When "Fire!" was shouted, some ran toward it, some away— I neck-deep among them.

The Buddha himself had strongly discouraged this inward tendency and had always encouraged his followers to go out into the world.

Scissors. He'd pulled a credit card and a pair of scissors from the drawer. Which meant he could either bribe or stab his adversary. Or he could go into a frenzy and cut up Jill's credit card. That would confuse 'em.

A traditional mystery is a whodunit, whereas a thriller is a how-can-we-stop-them-from-doing-it. As you compare these seemingly opposite subgenres in Figure 1.1, you'll note that although they differ in essential ways, they share a fundamental element—the use of suspense.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Often adults fail to realize that they simply can't reason with a toddler and thus they spend more time talking than acting. No matter how well you use them, words are often little more than sounds to young children. Actions, like removing a child from a forbidden temptation by picking him up and carrying him to another location, provide an unmistakable message.

Stop staring and call your brother', Dane snaps over his shoulder as he heads toward the stairs.

To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.