Quotes About Action

They were .50-inch Barrett Model 90s. Nearly four feet long, over twenty-two pounds in weight. Bolt-action repeaters, fired a bullet a full half-inch across.

Clicked the cocking handle to the fire position and closed her hand around the grip.

window. Reacher

We need to make fast decisions here. We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

to come out from under and get involved

He's smarter than me. I get things done better. He's more cerebral, I'm more physical.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst." "That wouldn't get us a warrant." "Warrants are about what you can prove. Not what you know." "And you know?" "It's an instinct thing. It's why I'm still here, after seven million years. Darwinism in action.

But the smart money says we should act like I'm right. Just in case." "Like Pascal's Wager.

It's true.' 'Then why did you snatch him?' 'We had to. We don't have any choice.' 'Everyone

signalled to the two guys way in back. Both unlocked their safety harnesses. One crouched forward, avoiding Franz's feet, and held his loose harness tight in one hand and unlatched

9. Un disparo

His usual habit was to click twice. If in doubt, et cetera. Maybe it helped, and it never seemed to hurt. Like shooting someone in the head. A double tap could do no harm.

Then the retributive machinery clanks into action and a flawless career spent garnering nothing but praise is trashed at the stroke of a pen, because it all has to be somebody's fault. Shit happens, but never in an official inquiry commission's final report.

19. Personal (VIII Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca, 2014)

Thomas Brant watched them go. He used his cell phone and called his boss, a man named Curtis Mauney.

The trouble with you, Phil, is that you went to Harvard, where they taught you not to take any action until you've got all the facts. You've got ninety-five percent of them, but it's going to take you another six months to get that last five percent. And by the time you do, your facts will be out of date because the market has moved on you. That's what life is all about—timing.

I arise each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day. —E. B. White The

What makes a Samaritan good is the possibility of the lunge.

We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking? When the sun rises we'll know what to do.

The end of learning, he said, is to "repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him" by acquiring "true virtue" (Hughes 631). This reinforces and expands Sidney's point that the end of learning is virtuous action.

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

Yet there is no reason for despair as long as human nature has not been conquered completely, i.e., as long as sun and man still generate man. There will always be men (andres) who will revolt against a state which is destructive of humanity or in which there is no longer a possibility of noble action and of great deeds.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.