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Quotes About Action

Down," she ordered. "Shoot anybody that comes into view." "What about you?" "No, don't shoot me." "I mean where are you going?
~ James Rollins
His friend slammed his shoulder into the door and burst out into the open.
~ James Rollins
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
~ James Rollins
Maybe such brave souls were the world's true messiahs. Maybe we didn't need to wait idly by for heavenly salvation. Maybe we were always our best hope.
~ James Rollins
Rolling across the floor, she reached Vigor. The monsignor crouched near the top of the firepit tunnel. She handed him her gun. "Down," she ordered. "Shoot anybody that comes into view." "What about you?" "No, don't shoot me." "I mean where are you going?
~ James Rollins
in the face of inhumanity, a good man reacts--but a great one acts.
~ James Rollins
She handed him her gun. "Down," she ordered. "Shoot anybody that comes into view." "What about you?" "No, don't shoot me." "I mean where are you going?" "Hunting." Kat had already extinguished their flashlights. She unhooked her night-vision goggles and pulled them over her eyes. "There might be more." She freed a long steel blade from her belt.
~ James Rollins
Hij zwaaide de hamer omhoog en - 'MEESTER JAKE!' - geschrokken gaf hij zijn duim een harde klap, precies op de knokkel
~ James Rollins
Are you sure, Gray?' He lifted his eyes. 'No . . . I'm not. I'm not sure of a damn thing.' He slipped his hands free of the monsignor's and peeled the battery off the phone, cutting the last ring in half. 'But that doesn't mean I won't act.
~ James Rollins
Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.
~ James Rollins
Ef you take a sword an' dror it, An' go stick a feller thru, Guv'ment ain't to answer for it, God'll send the bill to you.
~ James Russell Lowell
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~ James Russell Lowell
I drive. That's what I do. All I do.
~ James Sallis
Eu dirijo. É tudo o que eu faço. Não fico sentado enquanto você planeja a coisa ou a prepara. Você me diz onde começamos, em que direção devemos ir, para onde devemos seguir depois, em que horário. não me meto, não conheço ninguém, não ando armado. Eu dirijo.
~ James Sallis
We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...
~ James Sallis
There has been a failure in moral courage by the technologically astute to step in and lead, selflessly. There's always a product pitch at the end of whitepapers. We need to remove the product pitches and replace it with objective and viable action steps
~ James Scott
Drive thy business or it will drive thee." – Benjamin Franklin
~ James Scott Bell
transform yourself by the renewing of your mind. When you believe differently, you act differently and start to get different results.
~ James Sinclair
In his hand, Marc still had the Glock semi-automatic. Both of them knew what should happen next. The right choice, the expedient choice, was to put a bullet in this man's head and keep running. Marc kept running
~ James Swallow
I came home from work one day and felt compelled to write a book about free will.
~ James Tagg
Don't get it right, get it written.
~ James Thurber
There are basically two kinds of revolutionaries living in the world today. One looks at a crowd of people and asks how each might become a catalyst in bringing about a better world. The other looks to a picture of some fabled leader and asks how that crowd might come to follow him to the death.
~ James Tracy
El temor por nuestras propias vidas pudo habernos inducido a llevarlo al patíbulo y ponerle la soga al cuello, pero fue necesario un ímpetu más urgente que nos hiciera continuar y darle una patada a la silla.
~ Donna Tartt
Nil sub sole novum [...] Qualsiasi azione, nella pienezza del tempo, sprofonda nel nulla.
~ Donna Tartt