Quotes About Action

Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?

Frederick said we don't have choices, don't own our lives, but in the end it was Werner who pretended there were no choices, Werner who watched Frederick dump the pail of water at his feet-I will not- Werner who stood by as the consequences came raining down.

We act in the interest of peace.

Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?

that a thousand choices were implicit in a single moment.

Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?" "Doing nothing is doing nothing." "Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.

Werner lunges for Volkheimer's rifle. All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?

Isn't doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?" "Doing nothing is doing nothing." "Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.

The dread that had been rising all morning rose higher in his throat as if by capillary action.

every timidity eventually turns into regret.

start today so that everything works out tomorrow

While external factors may influence our actions, they cannot control them, for that would be to negate free will. To say "what will be, will be" is not to imply that the future is predetermined.

With him, an idea was implemented as soon as it was thought of.

the cautious Octavius felt that he was too inexperienced to carry off a bold action of this kind.

He should, at least temporarily, take the less dangerous course of acting like a private citizen.

Octavian decided that they should be put to death.

You must show yourself a man now and consider what you ought to do, and implement your plans as fortune and opportunity allow.

Treaty or no treaty, here was an opportunity to dispose of Sextus.

las personas no poseen una libertad total para pensar, decir o hacer lo que quieran, ya que hay límites en la capacidad de agencia humana.

What's past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don't bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way of action! United States Army colonel, Vietnam, mid-1960s

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

himself almost being torn in half as he was yanked out of the jeep on the end of the cord. In seconds he was forty, fifty yards above the runway, dangling underneath

Alex felt the bullets pass over his shoulder and heard a scream as one of the other guards was hit. Well, that made one less anyway!

Try to Kill the Children!