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Quotes About Action

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~ E. H. Chapin
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~ E. H. Chapin
He plunged headlong into the tangle, hacking right and left with his curved blade. He saw the red-haired girl huddled in a narrow passageway between two houses. Her garments had been torn to shreds, and her flesh was raked and bruised. She was scrambling to her feet, still clutching the short dagger that had cut down a bandit. But before she could kick clear of her dead captor, another raider saw her and closed in.
~ E. Hoffmann Price
Be a little kinder than you have to. Never eat anything bigger than your ass Do not accept an evil you can change Always do what your afraid to do
~ E. Lockhart
We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.
~ E. Lockhart
I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.
~ E. Lockhart
I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
~ E. Lockhart
Jule believed that the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. She believed that the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don't have one. She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say. She also believed in action movies, weight training, the power of makeup, memorization, equal rights, and the idea that YouTube videos can teach you a million things you won't learn in college.
~ E. Lockhart
I think you're wrong about the American dream -said Jule. -No, I'm not. Why? -The American dream is to be an action hero. -Seriously? -Americans like to fight wars. We want to change laws or break them (...). We're all about heading out west and grabbing land from people who had it before. Slaughtering the so-called bad guys and fighting the system. That's the American dream.
~ E. Lockhart
I am not someone to pity, with an unstable mind and weird pain syndromes. I am taking charge of my life. I live according to my principles. I take action and make sacrifices.
~ E. Lockhart
Always do what you're afraid to do
~ E. Lockhart
The four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
We didn't sob and bleed, we did something instead. Made a change." "Kind of,"says Mirren. "Are you kidding? We burned that fucking palace to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
Do not accept an evil you can change." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
~ E. Lockhart
No importa que uno de nosotros esté perdida y desesperadamente enamorado. Tan enamorado que deben tomarse medidas igualmente desesperadas.
~ E. Lockhart
Do not accept an evil you can change
~ E. Lockhart
I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea.
~ E. Lockhart
It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.
~ E. Lockhart
Do not accept an evil you can change - Gat
~ E. Lockhart
Do not accept an evil you can change. (p.101)
~ E. Lockhart
we should not accept an evil we can change
~ E. Lockhart
Fait ce qui te fait peur
~ E. Lockhart
Aveva abbandonato ogni piano d'azione; l'amore è la cosa migliore.
~ E. M. Forster
Love is a verb, not a noun. It requires action; intention. In love, there is no being, only doing.
~ E. M. Walsh