Quotes About Action

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.

What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic!" Master

We are asked today to feel compassionately for everyone in the world; to digest intellectually all the information spread out in public print; and to implement in action every ethical impulse aroused by our hearts and minds. The interrelatedness of the world links us constantly with more people than our hearts can hold. Or rather—for I believe the heart is infinite—modern communication loads us with more problems than the human frame can carry.

Growth in awareness has always been painful [...] But it does lead to greater independence and, eventually, cooperation in action. For the enormous problems that face the world today, in both the private and public sphere, cannot be solved by women - and men - alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.

At mid-morning on May 11, Hester received an urgent

Those who stand by and watch are complicit in what they could have stopped but chose not to.

What is the use of knowing everything, if you never actually practise it? They are forever cooking and never eating

We all know that things go on we'd sooner not think about, an' most folk mind their own affairs. But if yer forced ter know, then yer forced ter do summink.

Ignorance is something of an excuse, but not entirely. So often we do not look because if we looked we should feel obliged to do something.

It isn't what you feel, it's what you do that counts.

One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty

Which was worse, to intrude or to pretend not to have seen, because you had no idea what to do?

Yes I was afraid sometimes, but not often. Mostly I was too busy. When you can do something about even the smallest part of it, the overwhelming sick horror goes. You stop seeing the whole thing and see only the tiny part you are dealing with, and the fact that you can do something calms you.

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

I believe that I must do everything I can do to lessen misery. That's all I can do, and that is something enormous. It is a great power.

Lestat,' she said, 'it is the larger scheme which means nothing.' … 'It is the small act which means all. Of course sickness and suffering will continue after I'm gone. But what's important is that I have done all I can.

Is there any one of us who doesn't want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

What makes you think anyone has a destiny? We do what we do and we die.

I mean that one cannot expect to possess knowledge which does not change one. Once one knows, then one is acting upon that knowledge, whether it is to withhold the knowledge from those who would also be changed, or to give it to them.

Don't be afraid. Just start the tape.

It's never too late to do what you want to do.' Remember that.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I would never write at all.

She went to the kitchen for plates, and as she returned, one of the

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.