Quotes About Action

As long as there is hunger, poverty and treatable disease in the world there is work for us to do. As long as nations fight, and men hate, and corruption stalks the corridors of power; as long as there is unemployment and homelessness, depression and despair, our task is not yet done, and we hear, if we listen carefully enough, the voice of God asking us, as he asked the first humans, 'Where are you?' Hassidim tell the story of the

Baine lunged, grabbing hold of the guy's arm. Baine lunged, grabbing hold of the guy's arm, but the guy fired, once, twice, and Baine fell. But the gun fell too, just enough time for me to fire, and I did, again and again, until the gun was out of bullets.

We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising.

At last! Am I glad to see you! Right, stab this guy quickly, and let's be going.

Here we go," the Skull sighed. "Cue crisis!

And saw a field mouse whistling through the air in a karate attack position, claws out, hind legs foremost—right at him.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

A dream will never be reality, unless you make it reality

You've run a lot of risks, and gone to a lot of work, and all to turn me into a bullet for your gun. But I'm a bullet that thinks for itself, and I want to know what I'm being shot at.

You can't change who you are, but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought, act on it.

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.

you were a genius and a fool. A genius for what you were capable of doing and a fool for what you did.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

Nel caso di Romand il fatto più sconcertante è che la follia sia stata commessa in due tempi, come uno che mentre lavora al computer schiacci il tasto sbagliato, rischiando di perdere un file prezioso, e quando il programma chiede: «Sei sicuro di voler eliminare il documento?», dopo aver soppesato i pro e i contro, dia ugualmente l'ok.

l'adesione alle più elementari verità dei nostri atti comporti la necessità del vigore fisico e del coraggio.

Don't be content to let things drift along, hoping for the best. It is not spiritual to "put up" with inharmonious conditions. If the conditions of your life are not to your liking, you must get to work on your own consciousness and, by raising that above the outer picture, cause those conditions to become something nearer to your heart's desire; and you must keep on doing this until you find your True Place.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.

First deserve, and then desire.

Yes books are valuable. But no reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).